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LIBRARY  OF  THE  THEOLOGICAL  SEMINARY 

PRINCETON,  N.  J. 

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WEARING  THE  WHITE  FLOWER  OF  A  BLAMELESS  LIFE. 

—  Tennyson,  Page  243. 


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taken  up  at  random^  merely  with  the  object  of  reading  it  as  a 
/iastime,  has  been  known  to  call  forth  energies  whose  existence 
had  not  before  been  sitspectedy — Samuel  Smiles. 


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"T^HE  inward  man  is  renewed  day  by  day.- 
2  Cor.  iv.  i6. 


''^'HEN,  each  one  in  his  own  place,  we 
^i^  must  give  light  to  other  lives,  and 
make  the  one  little  spot  in  this  world  that 
is  close  about  us  brighter  and  happier 
with  love  and  grace.  The  great  lighthouse 
lamp  pours  beams  far  out  to  sea,  but  it  does 
not  lighten  the  space  around  its  base. 
Some  people  send  brightness  far  away, 
working  for  the  heathen  and  doing  deeds 
which  benefit  the  world,  while  they  fail  to 
brighten  their  own  homes  and  the  lives  close 
beside  them.  We  ought  not  to  be  such 
lights  as  these  ;  while  we  send  our  influence 
abroad  as  far  as  possible,  we  should  live  so 
that  we  shall  be  benedictions  to  those  who 
are  nearest  us. 

Rev.  J.  R.  Miller,  D.  D. 


He  needs  no  other  rosary  whose  thread 
of  life  is  strung  v/ith  beads  of  love  and 
thought. — Fro?n  the  Persian. 


2  5anuarg  2* 

T  ET  your  conversatioji  be  without  covetous- 
ness ;  and  be  content  with  such  thi?igs  as 
ye  have  ;  foi'  he  hath  said,  I  will  never  leave 
thee,  nor  forsake  thee. — Hebrews  xiii.  5. 

Men   talk  with  their  lips  and  dream  with 
their  soul 
Of  better  days  hitherward  pacing, 
To  a  happy,  a  glorious,  golden  goal 
See  them  go  running  and  chasing. 
The  world  grows  old  and  to  youth  returns, 
But  still  for  the  better  man's  bosom  burns. 
From  Schiller,  by  George  MacDonald. 

'J^HE  work  of  a  perfect  man  is  to  pass 
^*^  through  many  cares,  as  it  were,  with- 
out a  care;  not  with  the  indifference  of  a 
sluggard,  but  with  that  privilege  of  a  mind 
at  liberty.  Thomas  a  Kempis. 

The  most  beautiful  of  altars  is  the  soul 
of  an  unhappy  creature,  consoled,  thanking 
God.  Victor  Hugo. 

Let  the  only  motive  to  read  be  the  love 
of  truth.  Thomas  a  Kempis. 


IKjTARY  hath  chosen  that  good  part,  which 
shall  not  be  takefi  away  from  her. — Luke 
X.  42. 


And  thus  from  day  to  day  we  live, 
From  others  take,  to  others  give; 

Each  forms  a  part  of  one  great  whole. 
So  live  that  they  who  meet  with  Thee 
May  better,  truer,  nobler  be: 

Thy  own  Christ-like  divinity. 

E.    B.    MONTREUX. 

fF  you  trust  in  God  and  yourself,  you  can 
surmount  every  obstacle.  Do  not  yield 
to  restless  anxiety.  One  must  not  always 
be  asking  what  may  happen  to  one  in  life, 
but  one  must  advance  fearlessly  and 
bravely.  Prince  Bismarck. 

Life,  like  a  dome  of  many-colored   glass, 
stains  the  white  radiance  of  eternity. 

Percy  Bysshe  Shelley. 


All  that  thou  givest  thou  wilt  carry  away 
with  thee.  —  Turkish  Proverb. 


4  ^anuar^  4. 

nrHE  Father  that  dwelleth  in  me,  he  doeth 
the  ivorks. — John  xiv.  lo. 

'^^HE  crosses  we  make  for  ourselves,  by 
^1^  anxiety  as  to  the  future,  are  not  the 
crosses  sent   by  God.  Fenelon. 

►J- 
Consider  the  sea's  listless  chime: 
Time's  self  it  is,  made  audible, — 
The  murmur  of  the  earth's  own  shell; 
Secret  continuance  sublime 

To  the  sea's  end:  our  sight  may  pass 

No  furlong  further.     Since  time  was, 

This  sound  hath  told  the  lapse  of  time. 

Hark    where    the    murmurs  of   throng'd 

men 
Surge  and  sink  back  and  surge  again, — 

Gather  a  shell  from  the  strown  beach 
And  listen  at  its  lips:  they  sigh 
The  same  desire  and  mystery, 

The  echo  of  the  whole  sea's  speech. 
And  all  mankind  is  thus  at  heart 
Not  anything  but  what  thou  art: 

And  Earth,  Sea,  Man,  are  all  in  each. 

Dante  Gabriel  Rossetti. 


JDLESSED  are  they  which  do  htcnger  a?id 
thirst  after  righteousness,  for  they  shall  be 
filled. — Matthew  v.  6, 


I  AM  with  thee  !     He  hath  said  it 
In  His  truth  and  tender  grace; 
Sealed  the  promise,  grandly  spoken, 
With  how  many  a  mighty  token 
Of  His  love  and  faithfulness. 
Frances  Ridley  Havergal. 


/T?OD  is  perfectly  powerful  because  he  is 
^•^  perfectly  and  infinitely  of  use,  and  per- 
fectly good  because  he  delights  utterly  and 
always  in  being  of  use,  therefore  we  can 
become  like  God  only  in  proportion  as  Vv^e 
become  of  use.  All  life,  all  devotion,  all 
piety  are  only  worth  anything — only  divine 
and  God-like  and  God-beloved — as  they  are 
means  to  that  one  end — to  be  of  use. 

Charles  Kingsley. 

First  keep  thyself  in  peace,  and  then  shalt 
thou  be  able  to  pacify  others. 

Thomas  a  Kempis. 


6  5anuarB  6, 

'pOR  I  the  Lord  thy  God  will  hold  thy  right 
hajid,  saying  unto  thee,  Fear  not;    I  mill 
help  thee. — Isaiah  xli.    13. 


Lord,  with  glowing  heart  I'd  praise  Thee 
For  the  bliss  Thy  love  bestows; 

For  the  pardoning  grace  that  saves  me. 
And  the  peace  that  from  it  flows. 

Let  Thy  grace,  my  soul's  chief  treasure, 
Love's  pure  flame  within  me  raise; 

And  since  v/ords  can  never  measure, 
Let  my  life  show  forth  Thy  praise. 
Francis  Scott  Key, 


■i|JVERY  human  being  has  duties  to  be 
^^  performed,  and  therefore  has  need  of 
cultivating  the  capacity  for  doing  them, 
whether  the  sphere  of  action  be  the  manage- 
ment of  a  household,  the  conduct  of  a  trade 
or  profession,  or  the  government  of  a  nation. 

Samuel  Smiles. 


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TT    is    the    spirit     that    qidckeneth. — John 
vi.   6-7,. 

XITTLE  sins  mar  the  beauty  of  the 
character.  Then,  they  are  sure  to 
grow.  Ofttimes,  too,  they  are  infinite  in 
their  consequences.  The  little  rift  in  the 
lute  widens  and  by  and  by  destroys  all  the 
music.  The  trickling  leak  in  the  dike  be- 
comes a  torrent  deluging  vast  plains.  We 
ought  never  to  indulge  even  the  smallest 
faults  or  evil  habits,  but  should  aim  always 
at  perfection.  We  ought  to  be  satisfied  with 
nothing  less  than  perfection  in  character, 
and  perfection  is  made  up  of  trifles. 

Rev.  J.  R.  Miller,  D.  D. 


More  things  are  wrought  by  prayer 
Than  the  world  dreams  of;    wherefore, 
Let  thy  voice  rise  like  a  fountain 
For  me,  night  and  day. 

Alfred  Tennyson. 


In  your  patience  possess  ye  your  souls. 
Luke  xxi.  19. 


8  5atiuar^  S, 

J^E  which  sowefh  sparingly,  shall  reap  also 
sparingly  ;   and  he  which  soweth  bounti- 
fully^ shall  reap  also   bountifully. — 2  Corin- 
thians ix.  6. 

New  every  morning  is  the  love 
Our  wakening  and  uprising  prove, 
Through  sleep  and  darkness  safely  broughtj 
Restored  to  life,  and  power,  and  tlwught. 

John  Keble. 

'^^HE  things  which  are  seen  are  temporal; 
^^  it  is  the  things  that  are  not  seen  which 
are  eternal.  Even  the  dry  light  of  critical 
analysis  has  thrown  a  flood  of  knowledge 
on  the  Bible.  Even  the  philosophers  of  the 
last  century  quickened  and  freshened  the 
whole  atmosphere  of  religion  with  a  nobler 
influence.  Science,  if  it  cannot  increase 
our  faith,  h-as  at  any  rate  purified  and  en- 
larged it.  .  .  Even  in  the  silence  of  death, 
even  in  the  darkness  of  the  unseen  world, 
we  have  the  assurance  that  there  is  One  to 
whom  the  darkness  and  the  light  are  both 
alike.  Let  us  hold  on — ''knowing,  fearing 
nothing;  trusting,  hoping  all." 

Dean  Stanley. 


3-anuarg  9»  9 

r^OMMUNE  with  your  rnvn  heart  upon  your 
bedy  atid  be  still. — Psalms  iv.   4. 

Tribulation  worketh  patience  j  and  patience^ 
expei'ience  ;  and  experience^  hope. — Romans 
V.  3-4- 

Praise  God,  from  whom  all  blessings  flow  ! 
Praise  Him,  all  creatures  here  below! 
Praise  Him,  above,  ye  heavenly  host! 
Praise  Father,  Son,  and  Holy  Ghost! 

Thomas  Ken. 

fF  a  man  would  but  truly  and  impartially 
examine  himself,  he  would  find  but  little 
cause  to  judge  severely  of  his  neighbor. 
Thomas  a  Kempis. 

The  mind  that  delights  in  that  which  is 
lofty  and  great,  which  feels  there  is  some- 
thing higher  than  self,  will  undoubtedly  be 
drawn  toward  Christ. 

George  MacDonald. 

Hope  is  itself  a  species  of  happiness,  and 
perhaps  the  chief  happiness  the  world 
affords.  Samuel  Johnson. 


J-JE  that  followeth  7ne  shall  not  walk  m  dark- 
ness,   but  shall  have   the  light  of  life. — 
John  viii.  12. 

^RUST  God  in  the  dark.  This  is  the 
Wi^  highest  effort  and  triumph  of  faith. 
Pray  on,  trust  on,  believe  on,  hope  on,  and 
the  still  small  voice  will  in  due  time  come. 
Make  use  of  time  if  thou  lovest  eternity: 
know  yesterday  cannot  be  recalled,  to-mor- 
row cannot  be  assured;  to-day  only  is 
thine;  one  to-day  is  worth  tv/o  to-morrows. 
— Enchiridion. 


New  mercies,  each  returning  day, 

Hover  around  us  while  we  pray; 

Ncvat  perils  past,  new  sins  forgiven, 

New  thoughts  of  God,  new  hopes  of  heaven. 

If,  on  our  daily  course,  our  mind 
Be  set  to  hallow  all  we  find. 
New  treasures  still,  of  countless  price, 
God  will  provide  for  sacrifice. 

John  Keble. 


January  ll»  n 

jPOLLOW    after     righteousness^   godliness, 
faith,    love,  patience,    meekness. — i    Tim- 
othy vi.  II. 


'^^HE  world  is  so  waste  and  empty  when 
Vl^  v/e  figure  only  towns  and  hills  and 
rivers  in  it;  but  to  know  of  some  one  here 
and  there  whom  we  accord  with,  who  is 
living  on  with  us  even  in  silence,  this 
makes  our  earthly  ball  a  people'd  garden. 

Goethe. 

There's  beauty  all  around  our  paths 

If  but  our  watchful  eyes 
Can  trace  it  midst  familiar  things 

And  through  their  lowly  guise. 

Mrs.   Hemans. 

It  is  only  through  the  morning  gate  of 
the  beautiful  that  you  can  penetrate  into 
the  realm  of  knowledge;  that  which  we 
feel  here  as  beauty,  we  shall  one  day  know 
as  truth.  Schiller. 

I  KNOW  thy  works,  and  thy  labor,  and 
thy  patience. — Revelations  ii.  2. 


12  5anuar^  12, 

ACQUAINT  now  thyself  with  him,  and  be 
at  peace ;   thereby  good  shall   come    tmto 
thee. — Job  xxii.  21. 


^ktOU  have  a  disagreeable  duty  to  do  at 
<|J^  twelve  o'clock.  Do  not  blacken  nine 
and  ten  and  all  between  with  the  color  of 
twelve.  Do  the  work  of  each,  and  reap 
your  reward  in  peace.  So  when  the  dreaded 
moment  in  the  future  becomes  the  present, 
you  shall  meet  it  walking  in  the  light,  and 
that  light  shall  overcome  its  darkness. 

George  MacDonald. 


In  conversation  be  sincere: 
Keep  conscience  as  the  noontide  clear; 
Think  how  all-seeing  God  thy  ways 
And  all  thy  secret  thoughts  surveys. 

By  influence  of  the  light  divine 
Let  thy  own  light  to  others  shine; 
Reflect  all  Heaven's  propitious  rays. 
In  ardent  love  and  cheerful  praise. 

Thomas  Ken. 


January  t3»  13 

JDELIEVE  in  the  light^  that  ye  may  be  the 
children  of  light. — John  xii.  36. 

•I* 
He  is  with  thee  !  In  thy  dwelling, 
Shielding  thee  from  fear  or  ill  ; 
All  thy  burdens  kindly  bearing, 
For  thy  dear  ones  gently  caring, 
Guarding,  keeping,  blessing  still. 
Frances  Ridley  Havergal. 


''^'HAT  which  a  man  thinks  and  feels, 
^^  with  his  whole  force  of  thought  and 
feeling,  the  man  is  himself. 

Owen  Meredith. 

The  solitary  side  of  our  nature  demands 
leisure  for  reflection  upon  subjects  on  which 
the  dash  and  whirl  of  daily  business,  so  long 
as  its  clouds  rise  above  us,  forbid  the  intel- 
lect to  fasten  itself. 

James  Anthony  Froude. 
•J* 
There   is  that  within   us  which,  all   un- 
bidden,   rises   to   answer   to    the    voice    of 
intellectual  truth,  come  whence  it  may. 

Edersheim. 


14  5anuar^  14. 

TiVER  Y  good  gift ^  and  every  perfect  boon,  is 

from  above,  coming  down  /  "om  the  Father 

of  light,  with  whom  can  be  ,u  variation,  neither 

shadoiu  that  is  cast  by  turning. — Revised  Ed. 

Ja:jes  i.  17. 

Now  let  us  thank  the  Eternal  Power  :  con- 
vinced 

That  Heaven  but  tries  our  virtue  by  afflic- 
tion, 

That  oft  the  cloud  which  wraps  the  present 
hour 

Serves  but  to  brighten  all  our  future  days. 

John  Brown. 

•^ 

ME  must  not  expect  too  much.  We 
must  not  look  for  miracles,  but  what 
we  may  reasonably  look  for,  is  progress, 
and  progress  in  the  adoption  of  principles 
which  are  recommended  not  merely  by 
theory — not  merely  by  some  apparently 
plausible  grounds  of  reason,  but  by  the 
surest  investigations  v/e  can  make,  and 
by  the  still  sweeter  testimony  of  long 
experience. 

Wm.  Ewart  Gladstone. 


5anuars  15.  ^5 

TJ/HERE  hast  thou  gleaned  to-day .?— Ruth 
ii.  19.     "'" 

Strengthened  with  all  might  according 
to  his  glorious  power ^  unto  all  patience. — 
Col.  i.  11. 

That  man  may  last,  but  never  lives, 
Who  much  receives  but  nothing  gives  ; 
Whom    none    can     love,    whom    none   can 

thank, 
Creation's  blot,  creation's  blank. 

Thomas  Gibbons. 
•5- 
^T^HE  beautiful  exists  only  for  the  sublime 
^^  essence  that  seeks  it ;  the  infinite  exists 
only  for  the  soul  which  desires  it.  If  you 
could  endow  the  smallest  insect  with  the 
sense  of  the  beautiful  and  the  infinite,  this 
imperceptible  atom  would  comprehend 
eternity  and  would  see  God,  and  this  vision 
would  render  it  immortal. 

L'AiME  Martin. 

If  little  labor,  little  are  our  gains  ; 
Man's  fortunes  are  according  to  his  pains. 

Herrick. 


i6  5anuars  16. 

J^E  7vill  shew  you  things  to  come. — John 
xvi.  13. 

"ilJACH  day  is  like  a  furrow  lying  before 
^^  us  ;  our  thoughts,  desires,  and  actions 
are  the  seed  that  each  minute  we  drop  into 
it,  without  seeming  to  perceive  it.  The 
furrow  finished,  we  commence  upon  another, 
then  another,  and  again  another  ;  each  day 
presents  a  fresh  one,  and  so  on  to  the  end 
of  life  .  .  .  sowing,  ever  sowing.  And  all 
we  have  sown  springs  up,  grows,  and  bears 
fruit,  almost  unknown  to  us.  .  .  Is  there 
not  a  thought  in  this  that  should  make  us 
reflect  ? — Gold  Dust. 

Nothing,  resting  in  its  own  completeness, 

Can  have  worth  or  beauty,  but  alone 
Because  it  leads  and  tends  to  farther  sweet- 
ness. 
Fuller,  higher,  deeper,  than  its  own. 

Anonymous. 

If  thou  hadst  simplicity  and  purity,  thou 
wouldst  be  able  to  comprehend  all  things 
Avithout  error,  and  behold  them  without 
danger.  Thomas  a  Kempis. 


n^HE  laiv  of  the  Lord  is  perfect^  converting 
the  soul :  the  testi?nouy  of  the  Lord  is  sure^ 
making  wise  the  simple. — Psalinis  xix.  7. 


All  but  God  is  changing  day  b}^  day; 
He  who  breathes  in  man  the  plastic  spirit 
Bids  us  mold  ourselves  a  robe  of  clay. 

Charles  Kingsley. 


MHEN  some  splendid  edifice  is  to  be 
reared,  its  diversified  materials  are 
brought  from  this  quarter  and  from  that, 
according  as  nature  and  man  favor  their 
production.  So  did  the  wisdom  of  God, 
with  slow  but  ever  sure  device,  cause  to 
ripen,  amid  the  several  races  best  adapted 
for  the  work,  the  several  component  parts 
of  the  noble  fabric  of  a  Christian  manhood 
and  a  Christian  civilization. 

Wm.  Ewart  Gladstone. 


We  often  do  more  good  by  our  sympathy 
than  by  our  labors. 

Canon  Farrar. 


1 8  5anuars  18. 

J/f/HO  can   understand  his  errors  ?  cleanse 
thou    fne  from   secret  faults. — Psalms 

Xix.    12. 

'JT'HE  delights  of  thought,  of  truth,  of 
Vi^  work,  and  of  well  doing  will  not 
descend  upon  us  like  the  dew  upon  the 
flower,  without  effort  of  our  own.  Labor, 
watchfulness,  perseverance,  self-denial, 
fortitude,  are  the  elements  out  of  which 
this  kind  of  joy  is  formed. 

S.  C.  Jones. 

Since  Thou  hast  added  now,  O  God! 

Unto  my  life  another  day. 
And  givst  me  leave  to  walk  abroad. 

And  labor  in  my  lawful  way; 
My  walks  and  works  with  me  begin, 
Conduct  me  forth,  and  bring  me  in. 

So  till  the  evening  of  this  morn 

My  times  shall  then  be  so  well  spent. 

That  when  the  twilight  shall  return 
I  may  enjoy  it  with  content, 

And  to  Thy  praise  and  honor  say. 

That  this  has  proved  a  happy  day. 

George   Wither. 


T  INTO  thee,  O  Lord,  do  I  lift  up  viy  sout.— 
Psalms  xxv.  i. 

•!- 

Let  7/s  run  with  patience  the  race  that  is  set 
before  us,  looking  unto  Jesus. — Hebrews  xii. 
I,  2. 

He  is  with  thee!  with  thee  always, 

All  the  nights  and  all  the  days: 
Never  failing,  never  frowning. 
With  His  loving  kindness  crowning, 
Turning  all  thy  life  to  praise. 

Frances  Ridley  Havergal. 

mOTHING  that  is  of  real  worth  can  be 
achieved  without  courageous  working. 
Man  owes  his  growth  chiefly  to  that  active 
striving  of  the  will,  that  encounter  with 
difficulty,  which  we  call  effort;  and  it  is 
astonishing  to  find  how  often  results  appar- 
ently impracticable  are  thus  made  possible. 

Samuel  Smiles. 

Every  duty  that  is  bidden  to  v/ait  comes 
back  with  seven  fresh  duties  at  its  back. 
Charles  Kingslev. 


20  5anuarB  20. 

T^EFORE    they   call,    I  will  answer,    and 
while  they  are  yet  speaking,  I  will  hear. — 
Isaiah  Ixv.  24. 

Nearer,  my  God,  to  thee, 

Nearer  to  thee  ! 
E'en  though  it  be  a  cross 

That  raiseth  me; 
Still  all  my  song  shall  be. 
Nearer,  my  God,  to  Thee, 

Nearer  to  thee  ! 

Sarah  Flower  Adams. 

^^HE  life  of  man  is  made  up  of  action 
Vi^  and  endurance,  and  life  is  fruitful  in 
the  ratio  in  which  it  is  laid  out  in  noble 
action  or  in  patient  perseverance. 

What  we  do  on  some  great  occasion  will 
probably  depend  on  what  we  already  are, 
and  what  we  are  will  be  the  result  of  pre- 
vious years  of  self-discipline. 

Canon  Liddon. 

It's  good  to  live  only  a  moment  at  a  time 
.  .  .  It  isn't  for  you  and  me  to  lay  plans: 
we've  nothing  to  do  but  to  obey  and  trust. 

George  Eliot. 


Januarys  2  U  21 

QHEIV  me  thy  ways,  O  Lord  j  teach  me  thy 
J)aths. — Psalms  xxv.  4. 


'J^HERE  are  glimpses  of  heaven  granted 
^>i^  to  us  by  every  act,  or  thought,  or  word, 
which  raises  us  above  ourselves — which 
makes  us  think  less  of  ourselves  and  more 
of  others — v/hich  has  taught  us  of  something 
higher  and  truer  than  we  have  in  our  own 
hearts. 

Dean  Stanley. 

►J* 

To  thine  own  self  be  true, 
And  it  must  follow,  as  the  night  the  day, 
Thou  canst  not  then  be  false  to  any  man. 

Shakspeare. 

Happy    the    heart    that    keeps  its   twilight 
hour, 
And  in  the  depths  of  heavenly  peace  re- 
clined. 
Loves  to  commune  with  thoughts  of  tender 

power. 
Thoughts  that  ascend,  like  angels  beautiful^ 
On  shining  Jacob's  ladder  of  the  mind. 
Paul  H.   Hayne. 


2  2  5anuarB  22» 

T-TOLD  up  my  goings  in  thy  pat  Its  ^  thai  my 
footsteps  slip  not. — Psalms  xvii.  5. 


^^^O  see  the  hand  of  God  in  the  present, 
^1^  and  to  trust  the  future  in  the  hand  of 
God,  is  the  secret  of  peace.  Self-denial 
for  the  sake  of  self-denial  does  no  good. 
Self-sacrifice  for  its  own  sake  is  no  religious 
act  at  all.  .  .  Self-sacrifice,  illuminated 
by  love,  is  warmth  and  life  :  the  blessed- 
ness and   only  proper  life   of  man. 

F.  \V.  Robertson. 


The  trivial  round,  the  common  tas^, 
Will  furnish  all  we  ought  to  ask  ; 
Room  to  deny  ourselves — a  road 
To  bring  us,  daily,  nearer  God. 

Seek  we  no  more  :  content  with  these 
Let  present  rapture,  comfort,  ease, 
As  Heaven  shall  bid  them,  come  and  go  ; 
The  secret  this  of  rest  below. 

John  Keble. 


5anuacB  23.  23 

TT  is  God  that  girdcth  vie  with  stre?igth^  and 
inaketh  7ny  way  perfect. — Psalms  xviii.  32. 


Life  is  only  bright  when  it  proceedeth 
Toward  a  truer,  deeper  Hfe  above. 

Human  love  is  sweetest  when  it  leadeth 
To  a  more  divine  and  perfect  love. 
Adelaide  A.  Procter. 


yn^ANY  are  the  valiant  purposes  formed, 
XII«J  that  end  merely  in  words  ;  deeds  in- 
tended that  are  never  done  ;  designs  pro- 
jected that  are  never  begun  ;  and  all  for 
want  of  a  little  courageous  decision.  Better 
far  the  silent  tongue  but  the  eloquent  deed. 
For  in  life  and  in  business  dispatch  is 
better   than    discourse,    and    the    shortest 

answer  of  all  is,   Doing. 

Samuel  Smiles. 


It  is  not  to  taste  sweet  things,  but  to  do 
noble  and  true  things  and  vindicate  him- 
self under  God's  heaven  as  a  self-made 
man,  that  the  poorest  son  of  Adam  dimly 
longs.  Thomas  Carlyle. 


24  5anuarg  24. 

n^HE  Lo7'd  is  far  from  the  wicked  :  but  he 
heareth  the  prayer  of  the  righteous. — Prov- 
erbs XV.  29. 


Child  of  my  Love,  lean  hard, 

And  let  me  feel  the  pressure  of  thy  care. 

I  know  thy  burden,  child  :  I  shaped  it, 

Poised   it   in   mine  own  hand,  made  no  pro- 
portion 

Of  its  height  to  thine  unaided  strength  ; 

For  even  as  I  laid  it  on,  I  said, 

"  I   shall   be  near,  and  while   she   leans    on 
me 

This  burden  shall  be  mine,  not  hers." 

So  shall  I  keep  my  child  within  the  circling 
arms 

Of  mine  own  love. 

Thou  lovest  me  ?     I  know  it.     Doubt  not, 

But,  loving  me,  lean  hard. 

Anonymous. 

Life  is  only  bright  when  it  proceedeth 
Towards  a  truer,  deeper  Life  above. 

Adelaide  A.  Procter. 

As  fire  drives  out  fire,  so  pity  pity. 

Shakspeare. 


January  25.  25 

'T'HOU  hast  put  gladness    in   my   heart. — 

Psalms  iv.  7. 

•1- 

CouRAGE,  the  highest  gift,   that  scorns  to 
bend 
To  mean  devices  for  a  sordid  end. 
Courage  —  an      independent     spark      from 
Heaven's  bright  throne, 
By  which  the  soul  stands  raised,  trium- 
phant, high,  alone. 
Great  in  itself,  not  praised  of  the  crowd. 
Above  all  vice,  it  stoops  not  to  be  proud. 
G.  Farquhar. 

^^RUE,  modest,  unobtrusive  religion — 
^i^  charitable,  forgiving,  indulgent  Chris- 
tianity— is  the  greatest  ornament  and  the 
greatest  blessing  that  can  dwell  in  the  m^ind 
of  man.  Sydney  Smith. 

There  is  no  victory  possible  without 
humility  and  magnanimity,  and  no  mag- 
nanimity or  humility  possible  without  an 
ideal;  and  there  is  not  one  who  has  not 
heard  the  call  in  his  own  heart  to  put  aside 
all  evil  habits,  and  to  live  a  brave,  simple, 
truthful  life.  Thomas  Hughes. 


26  5anuari2  26. 

pOJv  our  heart  shall  rejoice  in  hi?n,  because 
7ue  have  trusted  in  his  holy  name. — Psali\is 
xxxiii.  21. 

•I- 

'^Y'HERE  is  an  eventide  in  the  day — an 
^^  hour  when  the  sun  retires  and  the 
shadows  fall,  and  when  Nature  assumes  the 
appearance  of  soberness  and  silence.  It  is 
an  hour  from  which  everywhere  the  thought- 
less fly,  as  peopled  only  in  their  imagina- 
tions with  images  of  gloom;  it  is  the  hour, 
on  the  other  hand,  which  in  every  age  the 
wise  have  loved,  as  bringing  with  it  senti- 
ments and  affections  more  valuable  than  all 
the  splendors  of  the  day. 

A.  Alison. 


Faults  are  thick  where  love  is  thin. — 
Proverb. 

All  men  have  their  frailties,  and  whoever 
looks  for  a  friend  without  imperfection  will 
never  find  what  he  seeks.  We  love  our- 
selves notwithstanding  our  faults,  and  we 
ought  to  love   our  friends  in  like  manner. 

Cyrus. 


5anuars  27,  27 

Ti/TY  vaice  shali  thou  hear  in  the  morni?ig,  O 
Lord  J   in  the  morning  will  I  direct  my 
prayer  unto  thee,  and  will  look  up. — Psalms 
V.  3- 


/T^HRISTIANS  are  like  the  several  flowers 
^i^  in  a  garden  that  have  each  of  them  the 
dews  of  heaven,  which,  being  shaken  with 
the  wind,  they  let  fall  at  each  other's  roots, 
whereby  they  are  jointly  nourished,  and  be- 
come nourishers  of  each  other. 

John  Bunyan. 


One  moment  now  may  give  us  more 
Than  years  of  toiling  reason: 

Our  minds  shall  drink  at  every  pore 
The  spirit  of  the  season. 

Some  silent  laws  our  hearts  will  make, 
Which  they  shall  long  obey: 

We  from  the  year  to  come  may  take 
Our  temper  from  to-day. 

Wm.  Wordsw^orth. 


28  5amiars  2S» 

J  ET  my  sentence  come  forth  from  thy  pres- 
ence ;   let  thine  eyes  behold  the  things  that 
are  equal. — Psalms  xvii.  2. 


♦(C^APPINESS  is  not  like  a  large  and 
■■•/  beautiful  gem,  so  uncommon  and 
rare  that  all  search  for  it  is  vain,  all  efforts 
to  obtain  it  hopeless;  but  it  consists  of  a 
series  of  smaller  and  commoner  gems, 
grouped  and  set  together,  forming  a  pleas- 
ing and  graceful  whole.  Happiness  consists 
in  the  enjoyment  of  little  pleasures  scattered 
along  the  common  path  of  life,  which,  in 
the  eager  search  for  some  great  and  exciting 
joy,  we  are  apt  to  overlook. 

Samuel  Smiles. 


By  trifles  in  our  common  ways. 
Our  characters  are  slov/ly  piled; 

We  lose  not  all  our  yesterdays; 

The  man  hath  something  of  the  child; 

Part  of  the  past  to  all  the  present  cleaves, 

As  the  rose-odors  linger  in  the  fading  leaves. 
Wm,  Morley  Punshon. 


S^anuarg  29.  29 

A  N'D  his  soul  desireth,  even  that  he  doeth.  — 
Job  xxiii.  13. 

Greatness   and    goodness   are   not   means 

but  ends  ! 
Hath     he     not    always    treasures,     always 

friends, 
The    good,    great  man  ?   three    treasures — 

love,  and  light, 
And    calm    thoughts,    regular    as    infants' 

breath.  S.  T.  Coleridge. 

•J* 

MHAT  is  the  measure  of  the  love  we 
owe  to  others  ?  It  is  the  measure 
of  what  we  think  is  owing  to  ourselves, 
''Love  him  as  thyself."  Observe,  if  I  may 
use  such  a  word,  the  equity  of  this  divine 
rule.  It  makes  us  the  judge  of  what  we 
ought  to  do.  It  imposes  upon  us  no  duty 
that  we  have  not  already  acknowledged  for 
ourselves.  Dean  Stanley. 

Why  destroy  present  happiness  by  a  dis- 
tant misery,  which  may  never  come  at  all  ? 
.  .  for  every  substantial  grief  has  tv/enty 
shadows,  and  most  of  them  shadows  of  your 
own  makinof.  Sydney  Smith. 


3°  5anuar^  30, 

^HE  Lord  liveth:  and  blessed  be  my  Rock; 
and    let    the    God    of    my    salvation    be 
exalted. — Psalms  xviii.  46. 


He  is  with  thee  !     In  thy  service 

He  is  with  thee  ''  certainly," 
Filling  with  the  Spirit's  power, 
Giving  in  the  needing  hour 
His  own  messages  by  thee. 

Frances  Ridley  Havergal. 


fN  all  lives  there  is  a  crisis  in  the  forma- 
tion of  character.  It  comes  from  many 
causes,  and  from,  some  which,  on  the  sur- 
face, are  apparent!}^  trivial.  But  the  result 
is  the  same — a  sudden  revelation  to  our 
selves  of  our  secret  purposes,  and  a  recogni- 
tion of  our  perhaps  long  shadowed,  but  nov/ 
masterful  convictions. 

Lord  Beaconsfield. 


It  has  done  me  good  to  be  somewhat 
parched  by  the  heat  and  drenched  by  the 
rain  of  life.  Charles  Kingsley. 


January  31,  3^^ 

'T^HE    Lord  is   my   shepherd ;    I  shall   not 
tt/^///. ^Psalms  xxiii.  i. 


The  Lord  my  pasture  shall  prepare, 
And  feed  me  with  a  shepherd's  care  ; 
His  presence  shall  my  wants  supply, 
And  guard  me  wnth  a  watchful  eye  ; 
My  noonday  walks  he  shall  attend, 
And  all  my  midnight  hours  defend. 

When  in  the  sultry  glebe  I  faint. 
Or  on  the  thirsty  mountain  pant, 
To  fertile  vales  and  dewy  meads 
My  weary,  wandering  steps  he  leads. 
Where  peaceful  rivers  soft  and  siov/ 
Amid  the  verdant  landscape  flow. 

Though  in  a  bare  and  rugged  way, 
Through  devious,  lonely  wilds  I  stray, 
Thy  bounty  shall  my  pains  beguile  ; 
The  barren  wilderness  shall  smile. 
With  sudden  green  and  herbage  crowned  ; 
And  streams  shall  murmur  all  around. 

Joseph  Addison. 


32  jfebcuarg  I, 

ALL     things     ai-e    possible     to     him     that 
believeth. — Mark  ix.  23. 


Not  the  labor  of  my  hands 
Can  fulfill  Thy  laws'  demands  ; 
Could  my  zeal  no  respite  know, 
Could  my  tears  for  ever  flow, 
All  for  sin  could  not  atone  : 
Thou  must  save,  and  Thou  alone. 

Nothing  in  my  hand  I  bring, 
Simply  to  Thy  Cross  I  cling. 

A.     M.     TOPLADY. 

'^^T'HERE  is,  indeed,  an  essence  of  immor- 
^*^  tality  in  the  life  of  man,  even  in  this 
world.  No  individual  in  the  universe 
stands  alone  ;  he  is  a  component  part  of  a 
system  of  mutual  dependencies  ;  and  by  his 
several  acts  he  either  increases  or  diminishes 
the  sum  of  human  good  now  and  forever. 

Samuel  Smiles. 
►^ 

Life  is  a  long  lesson  in  humility. 

J.   M.   Barrie. 


/I  UR  fathers  trusted  in  thee  :  they  trusted^ 
and    thou     didst    deliver    them. — Psalms 


xxii,  4. 


He  is  with  thee  !  with  thy  spirit, 
With  thy  Hps,  or  with  thy  pen  ; 
In  the  quiet  preparation, 
In  the  heart-bowed  congregation. 
Nevermore  alone  again  ! 

Frances  Ridley  Havergal. 


BE  true  and  real  in  all  thy  sacred  acts  ; 
remember  with  whom  thou  hast  to  do. 

Fr.    Hall. 

Despondency  is  not  a  state  of  humility. 
On  the  contrary,  it  is  the  vexation  and  de- 
spair of  a  cowardly  pride  ;  nothing  is  worse. 
Whether  we  stumble  or  whether  we  fall,  we 
must  only  think  of  rising  again  and  going  on 
in  our  course.  Fenelon. 

That  ye  be  .  .  .  followers  of  them  who 
through  faith  and  patience  inherit  the 
promises. — Hebrews  vi.  12. 


34  f  cbi'uars  3. 

J^HEN  shall   thy  light  break  forth  as  the 
moi'iiing,    and  thine    health   shall  spring 
forth  speedily. — Isaiah  Iviii.  8. 


HLL  things  are  engaged  in  writing  their 
history.  Every  act  of  man  inscribes 
itself  in  the  memories  of  his  fellov/s,  and  in 
his  own  manners  and  face.  The  air  is  full 
of  sounds  ;  the  sky,  of  tokens  ;  the  ground 
is  all  memoranda  and  signatures,  and  every 
object  covered  with  hints  which  speak  to 
the  intelligent.  Goethe. 

There  are,  within  the  range  of  every- 
one's life,  processes  of  life  which  must  be 
solitary  ;  passages  of  duty  which  throw  one 
absolutely  upon  his  individual  moral  forces, 
and  admit  of  no  aid  whatever  from  another. 
Alone  we  must  stand  sometimes  ;  and  if  our 
better  nature  is  not  to  shrink  into  weakness, 
we  must  take  with  us  the  thought  which  was 
the  strength  of  Christ:  ''Yet  I  am  not 
alone,  because  the  Father  is  v/ith  me." 
James  Martineau. 


3fel?ruarg  4.  35 

J  EAD   7ne,    O   Lord,   in   thy   righteousness, 
because  of   viiue  enemies  ;    make   thy   way 
straight  before  my  face. — Psalms  v.  8. 

We  should  walk  upright,  bold,  and  earnest 

—gay, 

And  when  the  last  night  closed  on  the  last 

day. 
Should  sleep  like  one  that  far-off  music  hears. 
George  MacDonald. 
^-\ 
7j|;^VERY0NE     knows     the     pleasure     of 
^'^^  receiving  a  kind  look,  a  warm  greet- 
ing, a  hand  held  out  to  help  in  distress,  a 
difficulty  solved,  a  higher  hope  revealed  for 
this  world  or  the  next.     By  that  pain  and 
by  that  pleasure  let  us  judge  what  we  should 
do  to  others. 

This  is  the  root  of  all  Christian  charity, 
of  all  Christian  forgiveness,  of  all  Christian 
justice,  of  all  Christian  toleration. 

Dean  Stanley, 

Manners  are  the  happy  ways  of  doing 
things — each  one  a  stroke  of  genius  or  of 
love — now  repeated  and  hardened  into 
usage.  R.  W.  Emerson. 


3^  3februari2  5. 

y^HOU  wilt  shew  me  the  path  of  life  :  in  thy 
presence   is  fulness   of  joy  j  at  thy  right 
hand  there  are  pleasures  forevermore.  — Psalms 
xvi.  II. 

We   know   the   arduous   strife,    th'    eternal 

laws 
To  which  the  triumph  of  all  good  is  given, 

.   .   .   else  wherefore  should  the  eye 
Of  man  converse  with  immortality. 

Wm.   Wordsworth. 


♦jj^OW  few  persons  are  quite  aware  what 
li»/  resources  and  powers  are  stored  up 
in  the  soul — or  waiting  within  easy  call — to 
serve  them  in  all  intellectual  or  moral 
emergencies. 

Rev.   Charles  G.   Ames. 


What  a  healer,  what  a  strength-giver  is 
joy  in  the  world  !  Will  not  holy  joy  at  last 
drive  out  every  disease  in  the  world  ?  Will 
it  not  be  the  elixir  of  life  and  drive  out 
death  ?  George  MacDonald, 


2februars  6.  37 

r^OD  is  love;    and  he  that  dwelleth  in  love 
dwell eth  in  God.  and  God  in  hi?n. — i  John 
iv.  i6. 

There  is  a  stream  whose  gentle  flow 

Supplies  the  city  of  our  God; 
Life,  love,  and  joy,  still  gliding  through, 

And  watering  our  divine  abode. 
That  sacred  stream,  thine  holy  word 

Supports  our  faith,  our  fear  controls; 
Sweet  peace  thy  promises  afford. 

And  give  new  strength  to  fainting  souls. 

Isaac  Watts. 

*a  BELIEVE    in   Eternal   Progression  ;    I 
■■   believe  in  a  God,  a  beauty  and  perfec- 
tion to  which  I  am  to  strive  all  my  life  for 
assimilation.  Margaret  Fuller. 


Every  man  has  experienced  how  feelings 
which  end  in  themselves,  and  do  not  express 
themselves  in  action,  leave  the  heart  debili- 
tated. We  get  feeble  and  sickly  in  character 
when  we  feel  keenly  and  cannot  do  the 
thing  v/e  feel.  F.  W.  Robertson. 


38  S'ebruary  7. 

jy'EEP  thy    tongue  from  evil,   and   thy  lips 
from  speaking  guile.  —  Psalms  x  x  x  i  v  .  13. 
*^ 
Knowing    ourselves,   our  world — our   task 

so  great, 
Our  time  so  brief — 'tis  clear  if  we  refuse 
The  means  so  limited,  the  tools  so  rude 
To  execute  our  purpose,  life  will  fleet, 
And  we  shall  fade,  and  leave  our  task  undone. 
Robert  Browning. 

H  LITTLE  consideration  of  what  takes 
place  around  us  every  day,  would  show 
us  that  a  higher  law  than  that  of  our  w411 
regulates  events;  that  our  painful  labors 
are  very  unnecessary  and  altogether  fruit- 
less; that  only  in  our  easy,  simple,  spon- 
taneous action  are  v/e  strong,  and  b}^  con- 
tenting ourselves  with  obedience  we  become 
divine.  Belief  and  love — a  believing  love 
will  relieve  us  of  a  vast  load  of  care.  Oh, 
my  brothers  !  God  exists. 

R.  W.  Emerson. 

As  we  advance  in  life  we  learn  the  limits 
of  our  abilities. 

James  Anthony  Froude. 


3februarg  S.  39 

n^HE  Lord  is  nigh   unto  tJiem  that  are  of  a 
broken  hea?'tj  aiid  saveth  such  as  be  of  a 
contrite  spirit. — Psalms  xxxiv.  i8. 

®H,  what  a  wretched  thing  it  is  to  be 
unkind  !  I  think,  with  the  thought  of 
the  Precious  Blood,  I  can  better  face  my 
sins  at  the  last  judgment  than  my  unkind- 
ness,  with  all  its  miserable  fertility  of  evil 
consequences. 

Frederick  W.  Faber,  D.  D. 

'Tis  a  little  thing 
To  give  a  cup  of  water;  yet  its  draught 
Of  cool  refreshment,  drained  by  fevered  lips, 
May  give  a  shock  of  pleasure  to  the  frame 
More  exquisite  than  when  nectarean  juice 
Renews  the  life  of  joy  in  happiest  hours. 
It  is  a  little  thing  to  speak  a  phrase 
Of  common  comfort  which  by  daily  use. 
Has  almost  lost  its  sense;  yet  on  the  ear 
Of  him  who  thought  to  die  unmourned  'twill 

fall 
Like  choicest  music  .   .   . 
To  him  who  else  v;ere  lonely,  that  another 
Of  the  great  family  is  near  and  feels. 

Wm.  Cullen  Bryant. 


40  3fcbruari5  ^* 

I^JANY  are  the  afflictions  of  the  righteous ^ 
but  the  Lord  delivercth  him  out  of  them 
all. — Psalms  xxxiv,  19. 

He  is  with  thee  !     Thine  own  Master, 

Leading,  loving  to  the  end; 
Brightening  joy  and  Hghtening  sorrow, 

All  to-day,  yet  more  to-morrow, 
King  and  Saviour,  Lord  and  Friend. 

Frances  Ridley  Havergal. 

ifjJNJOY  the  blessings  of  this  day,  if  God 
>w  sends  them;  and  the  evils  of  it  bear 
patiently  and  sweetly:  for  this  day  is  only 
ours,  we  are  dead  to  yesterday,  and  we  are 
not  yet  born  to  the  morrow. 

Jeremy  Taylor. 
•5- 

The  most  gladsome  thing  in  the  world  is 
that  few  of  us  fall  very  low;  the  saddest 
that,  with  such  capabihties,  we  seldom  rise 
high.  J.  M.  Barrie. 

We  always  knov/  what  to  do  next^  and 
that  is  enough. 

George  MacDonald. 


aFebruarg  10.  41 

'^RUST  in  the  Lord ^  aiid  do  good  j  so  shalt 
thou  dwell  in  the   land^    and  verily  thou 
shalt  be  fed. — Psalms  xxxvii.  3. 

The  Shadow  of  the  Rock  ! 
All  come  alone  ; 
All,  ever  since  the  sun  hath  shone, 
Who  traveled  by  this  road  have  come  alone. 
Be  of  good  cheer — 
A  home  is  here — 
Rest  in  the  Shadow  of  the  PvOck. 

F.  W.  Faber. 

'JT^O  study  the  lives,  to  meditate  the  sor- 
^i^  rows,  to  commune  with  the  thoughts, 
of  the  great  and  holy  men  and  women  of 
this  rich  world,  is  a  sacred  discipline,  which 
deserves  at  least  to  rank  as  the  fore-court 
of  the  temple  of  true  worship. 

James  Martineau. 

Many  of  our  cares  are  but  a  morbid  way 
of  looking  at  our  privileges. 

Sir  Walter  Scott. 

Faith  in   God  gives  the  ability  to  find 
God's  plans.  Rev.  W.  R.  Newhall. 


42  3fcbr«ar^  II. 

QHEIV    thy    marvelous    loving -kindness^    O 
thoit   that  savest    by  thy  right  hand  them 
li'hich  put  their  trust  in   thee  from  those  that 
rise  up  against  them. — PsaL-AIS  xvii.  7. 


HN  opal  lay  in  the  case,  cold  and  luster- 
less.  It  was  held  a  few  moments  in  a 
warm  hand,  wiien  it  gleamed  and  glowed 
with  all  the  beauty  of  the  rainbow.  All 
about  us  are  human  lives  of  children  or  of 
older  persons,  which  seem  cold  and  un- 
beautiful,  without  spiritual  radiance  or  the 
gleams  of  indwelling  light  which  tell  of 
immortality.  Yet  they  need  only  the  touch 
of  a  warm  human  hand,  the  pressure  of 
love,  to  bring  out  in  them  the  brightness  of 
the  spiritual  beauty  that  is  hidden  in  them. 
T.  R.  Miller,  D.  D. 


Let  us  only  take  care  that,  by  the  glance 
being  turned  inward,  or  strained  onward, 
or  lost  in  vacant  reverie,  we  do  not  miss 
our  turn  of  service,  and  pass  by  those  to 
whom  we  might  have  been  sent  on  an  errand 
straight  from  God. 

Mrs.  E.  R.  Charles. 


afebruars  12.  43 

J  HAD  fainted,  unless  I  had  believed  to  see 

the  goodness   of  the   Lord  in   the   latid  of 
the  living. — Psalms  xxvii.  it^. 


Here  is  a  lesson  that  he  who  runs  may  read  ; 

Though  I  fear  but  few  have  won  it, — 
The  best  reward  of  a  kindly  deed 

Is  the  knowledge  of  having  done  it  ! 

Edgar  Fawcett. 


fF  I  can  put  one  touch  of  rosy  sunset  into 
the   life  of  any  man   or  woman  I  shall 
feel  that  I  have  worked  with  God. 

George  MacDonald. 


He  only  is  advancing  in  life  whose  heart 
IS  getting  softer,  whose  blood  warmer, 
whose  brain  quicker,  whose  spirit  is  entering 
into  Living  Peace. 

John  Ruskin, 


44  jfebruars  13. 

J^UT  godliness    with    contaitmejit    is    great 
gain. — I  Timothy  vi.  6. 


My  God  protects;   my  fears  begone, 
What  can  the  Rock  of  Ages  move  '* 

Safe  in  Thine  arms  I  lay  me  down, 
Thine  everlasting  arms  of  love. 

Charles  Wesley. 


^HOUGHTS  clear  and  shape  them- 
W^  selves,  not  like  crystals  and  feelings 
by  being  still,  but  like  tangled  skeins  by 
being  unwound  ;  by  being  tossed  about 
among  other  people's  thoughts,  or  among 
other  thoughts  of  our  own. — Author^  Schon- 
berg-Cotta  Fa7?iily. 

So  long  as  men  dispute  whether  or  no  a 
thing  is  their  duty,  they  get  never  the 
nearer.  Let  them  set  ever  so  weakly  about 
doing  it,  and  the  face  of  things  alters. 
They  find  in  themselves  strength  which  they 
knew  not  of.  Difficulties  v/hich  it  seemed 
to  them  they  could  not  get  over,  disappear. 
Rev.  E.  B.   Pusey. 


3februar^  14.  45 

n^HE  Lord  redeemet/i  the  sou  I  of  his  serva7its  : 
and  710716  of  them  that  t7'ust  i7i  hi7?i  shall  be 
desolate. — Psalms  xxxiv.   22. 

He  is  with  thee  !     Yes,  forever, 

Now,  and  through  eternity; 
Then  with  Him  forever  dwelling, 
Thou  shalt  share  His  joy  excelling. 

Thou  with  Christ  and  Christ  with  thee! 
Frances  Ridley  Havergal. 

^JI^Y  life!  The  words  recall  me  to  my 
JLiSJ  senses.  I  am  surely  not  about  to 
drift  into  the  ranks  of  the  unemployed  v/ho 
go  about  moaning,  ''My  life,  and  what  shall  I 
do  with  it  ?  "  My  life  !  that  is  God's.  He 
will  know  what  to  do  with  it.  The  "hands 
which  came  from  darkness,  molding  men," 
will  find  what  to  do  with  it,  my  life!  I  have 
no  "life  "  of  my  ovvm.  I  have  only  to-day. 
— Author,  Schdnbe7-g-Cotta  Fa77iily, 

Thrice  blessed  is  he,  who,  v/hen  ail  is 
drear  and  cheerless  within  and  without,  v/hen 
his  teachers  terrify  him,  and  his  friends 
shrink  from  him,  has  obstinately  clung  to 
moral  good.  F.  W.  Robertson. 


46  febniar^  15, 

pGR  ivith  thee  is  the  foicntain  of  life  :  in 
thy   light    shall  we    see    light. — Psalms 
xxxvi.  Q. 


I  REST  beneath  the  Almighty's  shade, 
My  griefs  expire,  my  troubles  cease, 

Thou,  Lord,  on  whom  my  soul  is  stayed, 
Wilt  keep  me  still  in  perfect  peace. 
Charles  Wesley. 

|BSERVE  the  object  toward  which  this 
love  is  to  extend — ''Thy  neighbor." 
Here  again  there  is,  so  to  speak,  a  common 
sense  and  equity:  what  has  been  well  called 
"The  sweet  reasonableness  of  Christ  our 
Saviour."  It  is  not  an  indiscriminate  com- 
mand of  love  to  show  kindness  to  everybody 
and  to  all  mankind.  That,  in  its  literal 
sense,  would  be  impossible.  But  it  is  to 
love  "our  neighbor."  And  what  is  meant 
by  our  neighbor  we  cannot  doubt;  it  is 
everyone  with  whom  we  are  brought  into 
contact.  Dean  Stanley. 

This  world's  no  blot  for  us. 
Nor  blank;  it  means   intensely,  and   means 
good.  Robert  Browning. 


Jli'RET  ?wt   thyself  because     of  evil   doers^ 
neither  be  thou  envious  against  the  workers 
of  iniquity. — Psalms  xxxvii.  i. 


I  KNOW  not  what  awaits  me, 

God  kindly  veils  ni}/  eyes, 
And  o'er  each  step  on  my  onward  way 

He  makes  new  scenes  arise; 
And  every  joy  He  sends  m.e  comes 

A  sweet  and  glad  surprise. 

P.  P.  Bliss. 

'TV'O  wait  patiently,  men  must  work  cheer- 
^^  fully.  Cheerfulness  is  an  excellent 
working  quality,  imparting  great  elasticity 
to  the  character.  As  a  bishop  has  said, 
'' Temper  is  nine-tenths  of  Christianity"; 
so  are  cheerfulness  and  diligence  nine-tenths 
of  practical  wisdom.  They  are  the  life  and 
soul  of  success,  as  well  as  of  happiness; 
perhaps  the  very  highest  pleasure  in  life 
consisting  in  clear,  brisk,  conscious  work- 
ing; energy,  confidence,  and  every  other 
good  quality  mainly  depending  upon  it. 

Samuel  Smiles. 


48  iPebcuars  17. 

nrHE  wise^  and  their  works^  a7'e  in  the  hand 
of  God. — EccL.  ix.  I. 

When  gathering  clouds  around  I  view, 
And  da3^s  are  dark  and  friends  are  few, 
On  Him  I  lean,  who  not  in  vain 
Experienced  every  human  pain; 
He  sees  my  wants,  allays  my  fears, 
And  counts  and  treasures  up  my  tears. 
Sir  Robert  Grant. 

'J^HE  lightning  m^ay  dart  out  of  a  black 
^m/  cloud:  but  the  day  sends  his  bright 
heralds  before  him,  to  prepare  the  world 
for  his  com.ing.  So  should  we  endeavor  to 
render  our  lives  here  on  earth  as  it  were  the 
dawn  of  heaven's  eternal  day:  we  should 
endeavor  to  ^'walk  as  children  of  light." 
.  .  Thus  the  children  of  light  will  walk 
as  having  the  light  of  knowledge,  stead- 
fastly, firmly,  right  onward  to  the  end  that 
is  set  before  them. 

Julius  Charles  Hare. 
>%. 

''Now   abideth    faith,    hope,   love,   these 
three;  but  the  orreatest  of  these  is  love." 


3fcbnmri2  IS.  49 

T^UT  to  do  good  J  and  to  comtnunicate^  forget 
not^  for  ivith  such  sasrifices  God  is  luell 
pleased. — Hebrews  xiii.  i6. 

I  AWAKE  this  morn  and  all  my  life 

Is  freshly  mine  to  live. 
The  future,  with  sweet  promise  rife, 

Has  crowns  of  joy  to  give. 

Chambers  s  Journal. 

''^^HE  poor  Buddhist  pilgrim  who  prayed 
^^  to,  he  knew  not  what,  for  support,  and 
in  the  strength  of  that  prayer  was  sustained 
body  and  soul  long  days  and  nights,  was 
blessed,  and  that  blessing  was  enough  for 
him.  The  Samoyede,  who  said  in  her 
morning  prayer,  ''Sun,  arise;  I  arise  with 
thee;"  and  in  her  evening  prayer,  ''Sun, 
go  to  rest;  I  rest  with  thee,"  expressed 
a  harmony  with  the  order  of  the  world 
which  raised  her  above  her  own  sluggish 
life.  Dean   Stanley. 

The  thing  which  makes  one  man  greater 
than  another,  the  quality  by  which  we  ought 
to  measure  greatness,  is  a  man's  capacity 
for  loving.  Sir  Arthur  Helps. 


50  3februar^  19. 

T  ET  the  words  of  my  mouthy  and  the  medita. 
tion  of  my  heart,  be  accei>table  in  thy  sight, 
O   Lord,    my   strength,    and    my    redeemer. — 
Psalms  xix.  14. 

'^P^HE  moral  discipline  of  bearing  v/ith 
^sdi/  evil  patiently  is  a  great  deal  better 
and  more  ennobling  than  the  most  vigorous 
assertion  of  one's  personal  rights. 

H.   B.   Stowe. 

Unless  above  himself  he  can 
Erect  himself,  how  poor  a  thing  is  man. 
Wm.  Wordsworth. 

The  greatest  thing,  says  someone,  a  man 
can  do  for  his  Heavenly  Father  is  to  be 
kind  to  some  of  his  other  children.  I 
wonder  why  it  is  that  v/e  are  not  all  kinder 
than  we  are  ?  How  much  the  world  needs 
it!  How  easily  it  is  done.  How  instan- 
taneously it  acts!  How  infallibly  it  is 
remembered  !  Henry  Drummond. 

>!. 

Good  to  forgive;  best  to  forget. 

Robert  Browning. 


jFcbruarB  20.  5^ 

jDRINGING  into  captivity  every  thought  to 
the   obedience  of  Chi'ist. — 2    Corintians 
X.  5. 

Long  did  I  toil,  and  knew  no  earthly  rest; 
Far  did    I    rove,    and    found    no    certain 
home; 
At  last    I    sought   them    in    His  sheltering 
breast 
Who  opes  His  arms,  and  bids  the  weary 
come. 
With  Him  I  found  a  home,  a  rest  divine; 
And  I  since  then  am  His,  and  He  is  mine. 
Henry  Francis  Lyte. 


mOTHING  m.akes  the  soul  so  pure,  so 
religious,  as  the  endeavor  to  create 
something  perfect;  for  God  is  perfection, 
and  whoever  strives  for  it  strives  for  some- 
thing that  is  God-like. 

Michael  Angelo. 

Now  the  God  of  patience  and  consola- 
tion grant  you  to  be  like-minded  one 
toward  another  according  to  Christ  Jesus. 
— Romans  xv.  4-5. 


52  3Fet)ruare  21. 

QU RELY  goodness  and  mercy  shall  follotv 
me  all  the  days  of  my  life  ;  and  I  will  dwell 
in   the   house  of  the   Lord  forever. — Psalms 
xxiii.  6. 

I  SEE  my  way  as  birds  their  trackless  way. 
I  shall  arrive!  what  time,  what  circuit  first 
I  ask  not. 

In  some  time — His  good  time,  I  shall  arrive. 
He  guides  me  and  the  birds — In  His  good 
time. 

Robert  Browning. 

'^^HE  whole  course  of  things  goes  to 
^^  teach  us  faith.  We  need  only  obey. 
There  is  guidance  for  each  of  us,  and  by 
lowly  listening  we  shall  hear  the  right  word. 
.  .  Place  yourself  in  the  middle  of  the 
stream  of  power  and  wisdom  which  flows 
into  you  as  life,  place  yourself  in  the  full 
center  of  that  flood;  then  you  are  without 
effort  impelled  to  truth,  to  right,  and  a  per- 
fect contentment.  John  P>.uskin. 
•J- 

Hundreds  of  people  can  talk  for  one 
who  can  think,  but  thousands  can  think 
for  one  v/ho  can  see.         John  Ruskin. 


-..r^: 


<K.^!ci^, 


I  SEE  MY  WAY  AS   BIRDS    THEIR    TRACKLESS    WAY. 


Bro7vning,  Page  52. 


3februarg  22.  53 

TF  God  be  for  us^  ivho  can  be  against  us  ? — 
Romans  viii.  31. 


We  cannot  kindle  when  we  will 

The  fire  which  in  the  heart  resides  : 

The  spirit  bloweth  and  is  still  ; 
In  mystery  our  soul  abides  ; 

But  tasks  in  hours  of  insight  willed 

May  be  through  hours  of  gloom  fulfilled. 
Matthew  ARNOLr, 


♦flp^ALF  of  our  work  is  waiting,  and  hope 
"•^  is  the  inspiration  of  waiting  ;  that  is, 
hope  makes  waiting  active,  instead  oi passive. 
a  vivid  expectation,  instead  of  a  slumberous 
acquiescence  in  delay.  *'If  we  hope  for  a 
thing,  then  do  v/e  v/ith  patience  wait  for  it." 
— AutJior,  Schonberg-Cotta  Fafnily. 


There  is  no  dearth  of  kindness  in  this 
world  of  ours  :  only  in  our  blindness  we 
gather  thorns  for  flowers. 

Gerald  Massey. 


54  JPcl?niac^  23. 

QEEthat  ye  love  one  another  witJi  a  pure  heart 
ferve}itly. — i  Peter  i.  22. 


fT  was  a  true  instinct  which  had  made  the 
frailest  and  most  perishable  of  flowers 
the  token  of  love,  and  not  the  loveliest  and 
most  enduring  of  shells.  The  most  color- 
less dried  rose-leaf  between  the  pages  of  an 
old  letter,  yellow  and  faded  like  itself,  had 
more  life  in  it  than  the  most  perfect  shell 
glowing  with  rose  and  opal,  and  shining 
with  the  polish  of  the  mighty  waves  which 
had  tossed  it  hither  and  thither.  For  the 
rose-leaf  had  life  enough  to  die.  The  shell 
was,  after  all,  not  a  life,  but  only  the  cast 
of  a  living  form. — Author^  Schonberg-Cotta 
Family. 


Instruction  ends  in  the  schoolroom,  but 
education  ends  only  with  life.  .  .  And  edu- 
cation is  to  unfold  nature  ;  to  strengthen 
good  and  conquer  evil  ;  to  give  self  help  ; 
to  make  a  man. 

F.  W.  Robertson. 


3fet)niavg  24.  55 

^HE  Lord  looketJi    from    heaven ;     Jie    be- 
holdeth    all    the    sons   of  men. — Psalms 


'T?^HE  thistle  that  grows  in  thy  path,  dig 
^>^  it  out  that  a  blade  of  useful  grass,  a 
drop  of  nourishing  milk,  may  grow  there 
instead.  I'he  v\'aste  cotton  shrub,  gather 
its  waste  white  down,  spin  it,  weave  it  ; 
that  in  place  of  idle  litter,  there  may  be 
folded  webs,  and  the  naked  skin  of  man  be 
covered.  Bat  above  all,  where  thou  findest 
Ignorance,  Stupidity,  Brute-mindedness — 
attack  it,  I  say  ;  smite  it  wisely,  un- 
weariedly,  and  rest  not  v/hile  thou  livest 
and  it  lives  ;  but  smite,  smite  in  the  name 
of  God  !  The  highest  God,  as  I  understand 
it,  does  audibly  so  command  thee. 

Thomas  Carlyle. 

Blessed  is  the  man  who  has  the  gift  of 
making  friends,  for  it  is  one  of  God's  best 
gifts.  It  involves  man}^  things,  but  above 
all  the  pov/er  of  going  out  of  one's  self  and 
seeing  and  appreciating  what  is  noble  and 
loving  in  another  man. 

Thomas  Hughes. 


56  3februarT5  25. 

T^E  loveth   righteousness  and  judgment ;  the 
earth  is  full  of  the  goodness  of  the  Lord. 
— Psalms  xxxiii.  5. 

It  is   not   blessedness   to   know    that   thou 

thyself  art  blessed  ; 
True  joy  was  never  yet  by  one,  nor  yet  by 

two  possessed. 
Nor  to  the  many  is  it  given,  but  only  to  the 

all  ; 
The   joy  that   leaves   one    heart   unblessed 

would  be  for  mine  too  small. 
And  he  who  holds  this  faith  will  strive  with 

firm  and  ardent  soul, 
And  work  out  his  own  proper  good  in  work- 
ing for  the  whole. 
God  only  sees   this  perfect  good  :  the  way 

to  it  is  dim  ; 
God   only  then  is  truly  blessed  ;  man  only 

blessed  in  him. 

JVisdoni  of  the  Brahmins. 

MALK  as  children  of  Hght."  It  is  to 
light  that  all  nations  and  languages 
have  had  recourse  whenever  they  wanted  a 
symbol  for  anything  excellent  in  glory. 

Julius  Charles  Hare. 


Ifedniarg  26.  57 

TF  the  root  be  holy,    so   are   the  branches. — 
Romans  xi.  i6. 


fT  takes  long  to  learn  practically  that 
spiritual  truth  has  really  different 
aspects,  without  sin,  simply  from  our  dif- 
ferent points  of  view;  and  that  even  the 
differences  which  spring  from,  faults  of 
character  and  that  ought  not  to  be,  have  to 
be  corrected  slowly,  like  the  character  itself. 
We  talk  philosophically  about  the  pendulum, 
vibrating,  or  truth  advancing  in  a  spiral 
But  when  the  pendulum  begins  to  swing 
back  from  our  own  point  of  the  vibration, 
it  is  difficult  not  to  feel  as  if  the  sun  v>'ere 
standing  still,  or  the  whole  machinery 
being  reversed. — Author,  Schonberg-Cotta 
Family. 


I  HOLD  it  truth,  with  him  v/ho  sings 
To  one  clear  harp  in  divers  tones, 
That  men  may  rise  on  stepping-stones 

Of  their  dead  selves,  to  higher  things. 
Alfred  Tennvson. 


58  I'ebruar^  27. 

TF  we  live  in  the  Spirit^  let  us  also  walk  in 
the  Spirit. — Galatians  v.  25. 

If  aught  should  tempt  my  soul  to  stray 
From  heavenly  wisdom's  narrow  way, 
To  fl}^  the  good  I  would  pursue, 
Or  do  the  sin  I  would  not  do, 
Still  He,  who  felt  temptation's  power, 
Shall  guard  me  in  that  dangerous  hour. 
Sir  Robert  Grant. 

♦jK^OME  is  the  one  place  in  aJI  this  world 
ii«/  where  hearts  are  sure  of  each  other. 
It  is  the  place  of  confidence.  It  is  the 
place  where  we  tear  off  that  mask  of 
guarded  and  suspicious  coldness  which  the 
\vorld  forces  us  to  wear  in  self-defense; 
v/here  v/e  pour  out  the  unreserved  com- 
munication of  full  and  confiding  hearts.  It 
is  the  spot  where  expressions  of  tenderness 
gush  out  without  any  dread  of  ridicule. 
Let  a  man  travel  where  he  will,  home  is  the 
place  to  ''vv^hich  his  heart,  untrammeled, 
fondly  turns."  .  .  A  happy  home  is  the 
single  spot  of  rest  which  a  man  has  upon 
this  earth  for  the  cultivation  of  his  noblest 
sensibilities.  F.   W.   Robertson. 


3Febniar^  2S.  59 


'ight- 


IDE  glad  in  the  Lord^   and  rejoice^  ye  r. 

eotis  ;  and  shout  for  joy,   all  ye   that  are 
upright  in  heart. — Psalms  xxxii,  ii. 


O  WAKE  and  live  ! 
No  dream  can  give 
A  shadow'd  bliss,  tiie  real  excelling. 
Sir  V/alter  Scott. 

'•^^HE  watchful  Christian  is  one  who 
^i^  would  not  be  over-surprised  if  he 
found  Christ  coming  at  once;  he  would  not 
have  something  to  do  first,  something  to 
get  ready.  J.   H.   Newman. 

A  sorrow  comes  upon  you.  .  .  Meet 
the  dreadful  hour  with  prayer,  cast  your 
care  on  God,  claim  him  as  your  Father, — 
and  the  degrading,  paralyzing,  embittering 
effects  of  pain  and  sorrow  pass  away,  a 
stream  of  sanctifying  and  softening  thought 
pours  into  the  soul,  and  that  which  might 
have  wrought  your  fall  but  works  in  you 
the   peaceful  fruits  of  righteousness. 

Stopford  Brooke. 


6o  ^ebruarig  29. 

T^O  good,  that  they  be  ricJi  m  good  works. 
Timothy  vi.  i8. 


I  HROUGH  every  age, 
Through    every    moment    up    the  tract    of 

time, 
His  parent-hand,  with  ever-new  increase 
Of  happiness  and  virtue,  has  adorned 
The    vast    harmonious    frame:     his  parent- 
hand, 
From    the    mute  shell-fish    gasping    on  the 

shore. 
To  men,  to  angels,  to  celestial  minds, 
Forever  leads  the  generations  on 
To  higher  scenes  of  being;  while,  supplied 
From  day  to  day  with  his  enlivening  breath, 
Inferior  orders  in  succession  rise 
To  fill  the  void  below.     As  flame  ascends, 
As  bodies  to  their  proper  center  move, 
As  the  poised  ocean  to  the  attracting  Moon 
Obedient  swells,  and  every  headlong  stream 
Devolves  its  w^inding  waters  to  the  main; — 
So  all  things  which  have  life  aspire  to  God, 
The  Sun  of  being,   boundless,   unim.paired. 
Center  of  souls! 

Mark  Akenside 


/iRarcb  l»  6 1 

jy'NOW  ye  not  that  your  body  is  the  temple  of 
the  Holy   Ghost?  .   .    .   there/ore  glorify 
God  i?i  your  body. — i  Cor.  vi.  19,  20, 


/T^OD  has  a  vocation  for  each  one  of  us. 
^i^  God  cannot  spare  anyone.  .  .  It  is  not 
merely  the  shapely  stones  which  are  neces- 
sary for  a  building,  but  those  that  are  un- 
shapely. The  stones  that  are  hidden  from 
sight  are  just  as  needful  for  the  compact 
firmness  of  the  edifice  as  those  that  show  in 
an  honorable  place.  But  we  like  to  appear. 
We  like  to  shine  and  be  conspicuous.  .  .  If 
we  are  unnoticed  and  lost  to  outward  view, 
we  are  not  lost  to  the  Eye  of  God.  We  still 
form  part  of  His  plan.  He  has  a  use  for  us, 
and  we  have,  each  of  us,  a  true  vocation. 

H.  Collins. 
•I* 

To  know 

That  v/hich  before  us  lies  in  daily  life, 
Is  the  prime  wisdom. 

John  Milton. 
'^ 

That  life  is  long  which  answers  life's  great 
end. 

Edward  Young. 


62  /IBarcb  2, 

/]  ND  Ms  heart  was  moved,  and  the  heart  of 
his  people,   as  the   trees  of  the  ivood  are 
moved  with  the  wind. — Isaiah  vii.  2. 


The  Lord  my  pasture  shall  prepare, 
And  feed  me  with  a  shepherd's  care  ; 
His  presence  shall  my  wants  supply, 
And  guard  me  with  a  watchful  eye. 

Joseph  Addison. 

'J^RUE  glory  consists  in  doing  what 
VI*'  deserves  to  be  written,  in  writing  what 
deserves  to  be  read,  and  in  so  living  as  to 
make  the  world  happier  and  better  for  our 
living  in  it.  Pliny. 

Every  right  action  and  true  thought  sets 
the  seal  of  its  beauty  on  person  and  face. 

John  Ruskin. 

Full  souls  are  double  mirrors,  making  still 
An  endless  vista  of  fair  things  before, 
Repeating  things  behind. 

George  Eliot. 


/iBarcb  3.  63 

jy^EEP  thy  heart  all  with  diligence  j  for  out  of 
it  are  the  issues  of  life. — Proverbs  iv.  23. 


XIFE  is  not  made  up  of  great  sacrifices 
or  duties,  but  of  little  things,  of  which 
smiles  and  kindness  and  small  obligations, 
given  habitually,  are  what  win  and  preserve 
the  heart.  Sir  Humphrey  Davy. 


Old  friends,  old  scenes  will  lovelier  be, 
As  more  of  Heaven  in  each  we  see; 
Some  softening  gleam  of  love  and  prayer 
Shall  dawn  on  every  cross  and  care. 

As  for  some  dear  familiar  strain 
Untired  we  ask,  and  ask  again, 
Ever,  in  its  melodious  store, 
Finding  a  spell  unheard  before. 

John  Keble. 
'^ 

The  golden  beams  of  Truth  and  the  silken 
cords  of  Love,  twisted  together,  will  draw 
men  on  with  a  sweet  violence,  whether  they 
will  or  not. 

Rev.  W.  Cudworth. 


64  ^arcb  4. 

TN  the    siveat  of   thy  face   shalt    thou   eat 
hread.    .    .    .    jFor  dust  thou  art,  and  unto 
dust  shalt  thou  return. — Genesis  iii.  19. 


Hope  springs  eternal  in  the  human  breast; 
Man  never  is,  but  always  to  be  blest. 
The  soul  uneasy,  and  confined  from  home, 
Rests  and  expatiates  in  a  life  to  come. 

Alexander  Pope. 

HS  a  man  thinketh,  so  is  he,  and  as  a  man 
chooseth,  so  is  he  and  so  is  nature.  .  . 
He  is  like  one  of  those  booms  which  are  set 
out  from  the  shore  on  rivers  to  catch  drift- 
wood, or  like  the  loadstone  among  splinters 
of  steel.  R.  W.  Emerson. 

Those  who  love  God  here  will  love  Him 
far  more  in  heaven,  because  they  will  know 
Him  far  better.  .  .  They  who  served  Him 
here  in  sincerity,  will  there  serve  Him  in 
perfection.  Hannah  More. 

Long  do  we  live  upon  the  husks  of  corn, 
While  'neath  untasted  lie  the  kernels  still. 

Jones  Very. 


/iBarcb  5.  65 

n^O  guide  our  feet  into  the  way  of  peace. — 
Luke  i.  79, 

Such  as  have  not  gold  to  bring  Thee, 
They  bring  thanks — Thy  grateful  sons; 

Such  as  have  no  song  to  sing  Thee, 
Live  Thy  praise — Thy  silent  ones. 

Jean  Ingelow. 

♦ITF  we  but  knew  the  present  joy  and  the 
I"  future  glory  of  those  that  turn  many  to 
righteousness,  we  should  be  willing  to  take 
the  lowest  place  among  all  those  who  have 
part  in  this  work.  A.  T.  Pierson. 

O  HOW  great  the  dignity  of  man's  estate, 
that  human  nature,  united  to  God  in  one 
Person,  should  far  excel  every  creature  in 
heaven  and  in  earth. 

Thomas  a  Kempis. 


It  is  not  by  attending  to  our  friends  in 
our  way,  but  in  theirs^  that  we  can  really 
avail  them.  Margaret  Fuller. 


66  /iRarcb  6, 

pOR  ivhat  is  a  man  profited,  if  he  gain  the 
whole  worlds  and  lose   [or  forfeit  ]  his  own 

self, — (Revised  Version)  Luke  ix.  25. 
He* 
A  sacred  burden  is  this  life  ye  bear; 
Look  on  it,  lift  it,  bear  it  solemnly; 
Stand  up,  and  walk  beneath  it  steadfastly; 
Fail  not  for  sorrow,  falter  not  for  sin. 
But  onward,  upward,  till  the  goal  ye  win. 
Frances  Anne  Kemble. 


fT  is  not  possible  for  a  Christian  man  to 
walk  across  so  much  as  a  rood  of  the 
natural  earth,  with  mind  unagitated  and 
rightly  poised,  without  receiving  strength 
and  hope  from  some  stone,  flower,  or  leaf, 
or  sound;  nor  without  a  sense  of  bliss  fall- 
ing upon  him  out  of  the  sky. 

John  Ruskin. 

Two  things  excite  my  awe — the  infinitely 
great  and  the  infinitely  small. 

Hindu, 

Yes,  ye  are  made  immortal  on  that  day 
Ye  cease  the  dusty  grains  of  time  to  weigh. 

Wm.  Morris. 


'T^HE  coimsel  of  the  Lord  sta^ideth  forever, 
the  thoughts  of  his  heart  to  all  generations. — 
Psalms  xxxiii.  11. 


|k|OU  and  I,  working  in  our  several 
Ji/  spheres,  and  toiling  for  earth,  may  toil 
also  for  heaven,  and  every  day's  work  may 
be  a  Jacob's  ladder  reaching  up  nearer  to 
our  God.  Theodore  Parker. 


Tell  me,  my  secret  soul, 

Oh,  tell  me,  Hope  and  Faith, 
Is  there  no  resting  place 

From  sorrow,  sin,  and  death  ? 
Is  there  no  happy  spot 

Where  mortals  may  be  bless'd, 
Where  grief  may  find  a  balm, 
And  weariness  a  rest  ? 
Faith,  Hope,  and  Love,  best  boon  to  mortals 

given. 
Waved  their  bright   wings,  and  whisper'd, 
^'Yes,  in  heaven." 

Charles  Mackay. 


68  /iBarcb  8. 

JJ/AITon  the  Lord;  be  of  good  courage^  a?id 
he   shall  strengthen    thine   heart :    waity 
I  say,  on  the  Lord. — Psalms  xxvii.  14. 


A  CHARGE  to  keep  I  have, 

A  God  to  glorify; 
A  never  dying  soul  to  save, 

And  fit  it  for  the  sky. 

Charles  Wesley. 


-rt^VERY  time  a  man  bethinks  himself  that 
'•w  he  is  not  walking  in  the  light,  that  he 
has  been  forgetting  himself  and  must  repent, 
that  he  has  been  asleep  and  must  awake, 
that  he  has  been  letting  his  garments  trail 
and  must  gird  up  the  loins  of  his  mind — 
every  time  this  takes  place,  there  is  a  resur- 
rection in  the  world. 

George  MacDonald. 


Our  sweetest  songs  are  those  that  tell  of 
Percy  Bysshe  Shelley. 


saddest  thought 


/Obarcb  9*  69 

r  EAD  me  in  thy  truth,  and  teach  7ne  ;  for 
thou  art  the  God  of  my  salvation  :  on  thee 
do  I  wait  all  the  day. — Psalms  xxv.  5. 

I  NEED  not  be  missed,  if  another  succeed 

me, 
To  reap  down  those  fields  which,  in  spring, 

I  have  sown. 
He   who    plowed   and    who    sowed   is    not 

missed  by  the  reaper  ; 
He  is   only  remembered    by  what   he   has 

done. 

HORATIUS    BONAR. 

®UR  eyes  are  holden  that  we  cannot  see 
things  that  stare  us  in  the  face,  until 
the  hour  arrives  when  the  mind  is  ripened  ; 
then  we  behold  them,  and  the  time  when  we 
saw  them  not  is  like  a  dream. 

R.  W.   Emerson. 

Do  not  expect  that,  in  your  own  strength, 
you  can  make  use  of  even  the  best  oppor- 
tunity of  doing  good. 

Jean  Ingelow. 


7°  ^arcb  10. 

ALL  the  paths  of  the  Lord  m-e  me7'cy  and 
truth  luito  such  as  keep  his  covefiant  aud his 
testimonies. — Psalms  xxv.  io. 

How  can  a  man  learn  to  know  himself  ? 
In  the  measure  in  which  thou  seekest  to 
Do   thy   duty   shall   thou   know  what   is   in 
thee. 

But  what  is  thy  duty  ? 
The  demand  of  the  hour. 

Goethe. 

ME   often  do  more  good  by  our  sym- 
pathy than  by  our  labor. 

Canon  Farrar. 

But  there  is  something  which  is  sure  of 
success  ;  it  is  the  determination  which,  hav- 
ing entered  upon  a  career  with  full  convic- 
tion that  it  is  right,  pursues  it  in  calm 
defiance  to  all  opposition.  With  such  a 
feeling  a  man  cannot  but  be  mighty. 

Bishop  Thomson. 

One  God,  one  law,  one  element, 
And  one  far-off  divine  event. 
To  which  the  whole  creation  moves. 

Alfred  Tennyson. 


jfllbarcb  U.  71 

T  ET  us  draw  near  with  a  true  hearty  in  full 
assurance  of  faith. — Hebrews  x.  22. 

There  is  in  souls  a  sympathy  with  sounds, 
And    as    the   mind    is   pitched    the    ear   is 

pleased 
With  melting  airs  or  martial,  brisk  or  grave  ; 
Some  chord  in  unison  with  what  we  hear 
Is  touched  within  us,  and  the  heart  replies. 
How  soft  the  music  of  those  village  bells 
Falling  at  intervals  upon  the  ear 
In  cadence  sweet !  Wm.   Cowper. 

fT   is  a  truth   worth    remembering,   that 
this  mortal  life  is  given  to  us  that  we 
may  prepare  for  life  immortal. 

S.   Francis  de  Sales. 

In  many  things  it  is  v/ise  to  believe  before 
experience — until  you  may  know  :  and 
believe  me  when  I  tell  you  that  the  thrift  of 
time  will  repay  you  in  after  life,  with  an 
usury  of  profit  beyond  your  most  sanguine 
dreams,  and  that  the  waste  of  it  will  make 
you  dwindle,  alike  in  intellectual  and  in 
moral  stature,  beyond  your  darkest  reckon- 
ings. Wm.   Ewart  Gladstone. 


72  /iRarcb  12, 

'T^HE  Lord  will  give  strength  unto  his  people  : 

the  Lord  will  bless  his  people  with  peace. — 

Psalms  xxix.  ii. 

►I* 

||VLEASANT  it  is  to  entertain  the  picture 
ll^  of  ourselves  in  some  future  scene, 
planning  wisely,  feeling  nobly,  and  execut- 
ing with  the  holy  triumph  of  the  will  :  but 
it  is  a  different  thing — not  in  the  green 
avenues  of  the  future,  but  in  the  hot  dust  of 
the  present  moment,  to  do  the  duty  that 
waits  and  wants  us. 

James  Martineau. 

Who  made  the  heart,  'tis  He  alone 

Decidedly  can  try  us  ; 
He  knows  each  chord — its  various  tone  ; 

Each  spring — its  various  bias  ; 
Then  at  the  balance  let's  be  mute. 

We  never  can  adjust  it  ; 
What's  done  we  partly  may  compute 

But  know  not  what's  resisted. 

Robert  Burns. 

Time  tries  the  troth  of  everything 
God  sendeth  and   giveth,  both  mouth  and 
the  meat.  Thomas  Tusser. 


i^arcb  13.  73 

C/JVG  unto  the  Lord,  O  yc  saints  of  his ,  and 
give  tha?iks  at  the  remembrance  of  his  holi- 
ness.— Psalms  xxx.  4. 

Why  should  we  faint  and  fear  to  live  alone, 

Since  all  alone,  so  Heaven  has  willed,  v/e 

die; 

Nor  even  the  tenderest  heart,  and  next  our 

own, 

Knov/s  half  the  reasons  vvhy  we  smile  or 

sigh  ? 

John  Keble. 

'Tis  sweet,  as  year  by  year  we  lose 
Friends  out  of  sight,  in  faith  to  muse 
How  grows  in  Paradise  our  store. 

John  Keble. 

•^ 

'^HE  Christian  life  is  the  Christly  life. 
^1*'  It  is  having  the  mind  of  Christ.  It  is 
having  the  spirit  of  Christ.  The  Christian 
life,  the  Christly  life,  is  the  life  of  God  in 
the  soul.  J.  F.  W.  Ware. 

Here  our  love  of  spiritual  things  is  super- 
induced:   there    [Heaven]    it    will   be   our 

natural  frame. 

Hannah  More. 


74  /nbarcb  14. 

JJ/HA  T  7nan  is  he  that  feareth  the  Lord  ? 
him  shall  he  teach  in  the  luay  that    he 
shall  choose. — Psalms  xxv.  12. 

In  the  still  air  the  music  lies  unheard; 
In     the     rough     marble     beauty     hides 
unseen; 
To  make  the  music  and  the  beauty  needs 
The  master's  touch,  the  sculptor's  chisel 
keen. 
Great   Master,  touch   us   with   Thy  skillful 
hand ; 
Let  not  the  music  that  is  in  us  die; 
Great  Sculptor,  hew  and  polish  us;  nor  let, 
Hidden  and  lost.  Thy  form  within  us  lie! 

HORATIUS  BONAR. 

^T^HERE  is  a  struggle  for  love  as  well  as 
^i^  for  food.  The  web  of  life  is  not  woven 
wholly  upon  the  threads  of  discord. 

Henry  Drummond. 

Teach  self-denial  and  make  its  practice 
pleasurable,  and  you  create  for  the  world  a 
destiny  more  sublime  than  ever  issued  from 
the  brain  of  the  wildest  dreamer. 

Sir  Walter  Scott. 


/Ilbarcb  15.  75 

'l^HE  secret  of  the  Lord  is  luith  them  that 
fear   him:    and  he   will  shew    them    his 
covenant. — Psalms  xxv.  14. 

HHOLY  life  is  the  very  gate  of  Heaven. 
But  let  us  always  remember  that  holi- 
ness does  not  consist  in  doing  uncommon 
things,  but  in  doing  everything  with  purity 
of  heart.  H.  Manning. 

Higher  by  far  than  the  power  of  accumu- 
lating is  the  power  of  distributing.  Hoard- 
ing is  a  capability  which  man  holds  in  com- 
mon with  the  bee,  the  ant,  and  the  squirrel; 
but  distributing  to  the  wants  of  others  is  a 
power  which  man  is  gradually  acquiring,  and 
makes  him  akin  to  the  angels.  —  Unity. 

Guard  within  yourself  that  treasure, 
kindness.  Know  how  to  give  without  hesi- 
tation, how  to  lose  without  regret,  how  to 
acquire  without  meanness.  Know  how  to 
replace  in  your  heart,  by  the  happiness  of 
those  you  love,  the  happiness  that  may  be 
wanting  in  yourself. 

F.  W.  Faber. 


7^  /Iftarcb  16. 

T  ET  integ7'ity  and  t/prig/itness  preserve  7ne  ; 
for  I  watt  on  thee. — Psalms  xxv.  12. 

Life  is  but  a  day,  at  best, 
Sprung  from  night,  in  darkness  lost; 
Hope  not  sunshine  every  hour; 
Fear  not  clouds  will  always  lower. 

Robert  Burns. 

'T  is  a  sad  weakness  in  us,  after  all,  that 
the  thought  of  a  man's  death  hallows 
him  anew  to  us;  as  if  life  were  not  sacred 
too — as  if  it  were  comparatively  a  light 
thing  to  fail  in  love  and  reverence  to  the 
brother  who  has  to  climb  the  whole  toilsome 
steep  with  us,  and  all  our  tears  and  tender- 
ness were  due  to  the  one  who  is  spared  the 
Hard  journey.  George  Eliot. 

Share  everything  you  have  with  some- 
one else,  and  you  will  have  plenty  to  give. 
Is  not  that  why  God  gave  you  the  things  ? 

Fr.  Osborne. 

May  we  have — *'high  erected  thoughts 
seated  in  the  heart  of  courtesy." 

Sir  Philip  Sidney. 


/IRarcb  17.  77 

HTHE  Lord  is  my  strength  and  7ny  shield  j  my 

heart  trusted  in  hi?n^   and  I  am   helped; 

therefore  my  hea7't  greatly  rejoiceth  :  and  with 

my  song  ivill  I  praise  him. — Psalms  xxviii.  7. 


A    POOR   man  'served    by    thee   shall    make 

thee  rich  ; 
A  sick  man  helped  by  thee  shall  make  thee 

strong  ; 
Thou   shalt    be    served     thyself   by    every 

sense 
Of  service  which  thou  renderest. 

Mrs.   Browning. 

XIFE  should  be  spent  in  a  strong,  con- 
tinuous effort  to  improve  the  appa- 
ratus for  the  guidance  of  life,  both  in  thought 
and  action.  We  must  ever  be  trying  to 
know  more  and  more  what  are  the  things  to 
be  believed  and  done. 

Wm.  Ewart  Gladstone. 

If  you  enable  yourselves  to  distinguish, 
by  the  truth  of  your  own  lives,  what  is  true 
in  those  of  other  men,  you  will  perceive 
that  all  good  has  its  origin  in  good,  never 
in  evil.  John  Ruskin, 


78  /Hbarcb  IS. 

J  J /AIT  on  the  Lord^  and  keep  his  way,  and 
he  shall  exalt  thee  to  inherit  the  land.  — 
Psalms  xxxvii.  34. 


Time  revels  'mid  your  dearest  joys. 

Death  smites  your  brightest  rose, 
And  sin  your  bower  of  peace  destroys  : 

Where  will  ye  find  repose  ? 
Ye're  wearied  in  your  pilgrim  race, 

Sharp  thorns  your  path  infest  : 
Come  hither^  rise  to  our  embrace, 

And  Christ  shall  give  you  rest. 

Mrs.  Sigourney. 


'^^HANK  God  every  morning  when  you 

Vi*'  get  up  that  you  have  something  to  do 

that  day  which  must  be  done,  whether  you 

like  it  or  not.     Being  forced   to  work,  and 

forced  to  do  your  best,  will  breed  in  you 

temperance  and  self-control,  diligence  and 

strength  of  will,  cheerfulness  and  content, 

and  a  hundred  virtues  which  the  idle  never 

know. 

Charles  Kingsley. 


/Dbarcb  19,  79 

J  J /HEN  thou  saidst^  Seek  ye  my  face  ;  my 
heart  said  unto  thee,  Thy  face^  Lord,  will 
I  seek. — Psalms  xxvii.   8 

^- 
My    fairest  child,  I   have  no  song  to   give 

you  ; 
No  lark   would   pipe  to  skies  so   dull   and 

gray: 
Yet,  ere  we  part,  one  lesson  I  can  leave  you, 

For  every  day  : 
Be  good,  sweet  maid,  and  let  who  will   be 

clever, 
Do  noble  things,  not  dream   them,  all  day 

long. 
And  so  make  life,  death  and   that  vast  for- 
ever 

One  grand  sweet  song. 

Charles  Kingsley. 
'^ 
'IJJVERY  real  and  searching  effort  at  self- 
^^^  improvement  is  of  itself  a  lesson  of 
profound  humility.  For  we  cannot  move  a 
step  without  learning  and  feeling  the  way- 
wardness, the  weakness,  the  vacillation  of 
our  movements,  or  without  desiring  to  be 
set  upon  the  Rock  that  is  higher  than 
ourselves.  Wm.  Ewart  Gladstone. 


8o  ^arcb  20» 

TJO  WBEIT,  when  he,  the  Spirit  of  truth  is 
come,  he  will  guide  you  into  all  truth. — 
John  xvi.  13. 

Abide  with  me  from  morn  till  eve, 
For  without  Thee  I  cannot  live  ; 
Abide  with  me  when  night  is  nigh, 
For  without  Thee  I  dare  not  die. 

John  Keble. 

/^OME  what  may,  hold  fast  to  love, 
^i^  Though  men  should  rend  your  heart, 
let  them  not  embitter  or  harden  it.  We 
win  by  tenderness,  we  conquer  by  for- 
giveness. 

F.  W.  Robertson. 


It  is  not  from  the  crowded  warehouse  of 
prosperity  that  men  first  or  clearest  see 
the  eternal  stars  of  heaven.  It  is  often 
from  the  humble  spot  where  we  have  laid 
down  our  dear  ones  that  we  find  our  best 
observatory,  which  gives  us  glimpses  into 
the  far-off  world  of  never-ending  time. 

Theodore  Parker. 


'h/TAN  shall  not  live  by  bread  alone. — Mat- 
thew iv.  4. 


MHOEVER  tries  to  do  each  day's  work 
in  the  spirit  of  patient  loyalty  to  God 
is  weaving  the  texture  whose  other  side  is 
fairer  than  the  one  he  sees. 

Dean  Stanley. 


A  Christian  man's  life  is  lain  in  the  loom 
of  time,  to  a  pattern  which  he  does  not 
see,  but  God  does  ;  and  his  heart  is  the 
shuttle.  On  one  side  of  the  loom  is 
sorrow,  and  on  the  other  is  joy  ;  and  the 
shuttle,  struck  alternately  by  each,  flies 
back  and  forth,  carrying  the  thread,  which 
is  white  or  black  as  the  pattern  needs  ;  and 
in  the  end,  when  God  shall  lift  up  the 
finished  garment,  and  all  its  changing  hues 
shall  glance  out,  it  will  then  appear  that  the 
dark  and  deep  colors  were  as  needful  to 
beauty  as  the  bright  and  high  ones. 

Henry  Ward  Beecher. 


82  /Hbarcb  22. 

A  M  AN' S  life  consisteth  not  in  the  abundance 
of  the  things  he possesseth. — Luke  xii.  15. 

God  is  enough  !     Thou  who   in  hope  and 

fear 
Toilest  through  desert  sands  of  Hfe,  sore 

tried, 
CHmb  trustful  over  death's  black  ridge,  for 

near 
The  bright  wells  shine  ;  thou  wilt  be  satisfied 
God  doth  suffice  !  O,  thou,  the  patient  one, 
Who  puttest  faith  in  Him,  and  none  besides. 
Bear  yet  thy  load  ;  under  the  setting  sun 
The  glad  tents  gleam  ;  thou  wilt  be  satis- 
fied. 

Edwin  Arnold. 


® 


UR  humanity  were  a  poor  thing  but  for 
the  divinity  which  stirs  within  us. 

F.  Bacon. 


Whoever  fears  God,  fears  to  sit  at  ease. 
Mrs.  Browning. 

Love  divine,  all  love  excelling, 
Joy  of  heaven,  to  earth  come  down. 

A,  M.  Toplady. 


jfBbarcb  23.  83 

DUT  as  for  me^    I  will  walk  in  mine  in- 
tegrity :   redee7n  fne^  and  be  7?ierciful  unto 
me. — Psalms  xxvi.  11. 


There  are  some  days  that  die  not  out, 
Nor  alter  by  reflection's  power, 

Whose  converse  calm,  whose  words  devout, 
Forever  rest,  the  spirit's  dower. 

And  there  are  days  when  drops  a  veil — 
A  mist  upon  the  distance  passed  ; 

And  while  we  to  peace — "  All  Hail  !  " 
We  hope  that  always  it  shall  last, 

Jean  Ingelow. 


MHO,  under  all  circumstances,  is  so 
faithful  a  friend,  who  so  powerful 
a  helper  in  every  trouble  as  Thou,  our 
God.  .  .  Wait  a  little,  and  call  upon  the 
gracious  Lord  Jesus,  and  it  shall  go  well 
with  you  after  your  night's  toil. 

Thomas  a  Kempis. 


84  ^arcb  24» 

T^E  of  good  courage^  and  he  shall  strengthen 
your  hearty  all  ye  that  hope  ift  the  Lord. — 
Psalms  xxxi.  24. 

4- 

GivE  unto  me,  made  lowly  wise, 
The  spirit  of  self-sacrifice  ; 
The  confidence  of  reason  give  ; 
And,  in  the  light  of  truth,  Thy  Bondman 
let  me  live. 

Wm.  Wordsworth. 


'tk^OU  remember  our  Lord's  beatitude  for 
^j^  purity,  ''  Blessed  are  the  pure  in  heart  ; 
for  they  shall  see  God."  .  .  Purity  of 
heart  purifies  the  whole  soul,  and  trans- 
figures the  commonest  life  until  it  shines 
with  almost  angelic  radiance.  ''  It  is  purity, 
gentleness,  and  grace  in  the  heart,  which, 
like  the  perfume  of  a  flower,  breathes  out 
and  bathes  all  the  air  about  it  in  sweet- 
ness." J.  R.  Miller,  D.  D. 


There  is  always  the  battle  to  be  fought 
before  the  victory  is  won. 

Dean  Stanley. 


TT  is  your  Father  s  good  pleasure  to  give  you 
the  kingdom. — Luke  xii.  32. 

To  guide  our  feet  into  the  way  of  peace. — 
Luke  i.  79. 

Thus  heavenly  hope  is  all  serene; 

But  earthly  hope,  how  bright  so  e'er, 
Still  fluctuates  o'er  this  changing  scene, 

As  false  and  fleeting  as  'tis  fair. 

Reginald  Heber. 

'^T^HEY  are  never  alone  that  are  accom- 
Vir'  panied  with  noble  thoughts. 

Sir  Philip  Sidney, 

Truth  lies  in  character.  Christ  did  not 
simply  speak  truth;  He  was  truth,  through 
and  through;  for  truth  is  a  thing  not  of 
words,  but  of  life  and  being. 

F.  W.  Robertson. 

There  is  always  the  wine-press  to  be 
trodden  before  we  drink  the  juice  of  the 
grapes.  Dean  Stanley. 


86  /Iftarcb  26» 

''pHE  Lord  knoweth  the  days  of  the  upright : 
and  their  inheritance  shall  be  forever. — 
Psalms  xxxvii.  i8. 


s 


UBMISSION,  courage,  exertion — these 
seem  to  be  the  weapons  with  which  we 
must  fight  life's  long  battle, 

Charlotte  Bronte. 

Life  cannot  be  spent  in  a  triumphal  prog- 
ress; and  is  seldom  spent  without  some 
necessity  for  retracing  false  steps. — Author^ 
Schonberg-Cotta  Fa-mily. 

Oh,  for  faith  and  strength  to  win 
Every  battle  we  begin  ! 
Oh,  for  patience  to  put  through 
Every  task  we  planned  to  do. 

James  Buckham. 

Where  you  are  is  of  no  moment,  but 
only  what  you  are  doing  there.  It  is  not 
the  place  that  ennobles  you,  but  you  the 
place  :  and  this  is  only  by  doing  that  which 
is  great  and  noble.  Petrarch. 


/IRarcb  27.  87 

T-TE  that  soiveth  the  good  seed  is  the  So?i  of 
man. — Matthew  xiii.  37. 

Whither  thou  goest^  I  will  go  j  and  where 
thou  lodgest,  I  will  lodge :  thy  people  shall  be 
my  people^  and  thy  God  my  God. — Ruth  i.  16. 

Better  trust  all,  and  be  deceived, 
And  weep  that  trust  and  that  deceiving, 
Than  doubt  one  heart,  that,  if  believed. 
Had  blessed  one's  life  with  true  believing. 
Frances  Anne  Kemble, 


T  is  moral  courage  that  characterizes 
the  highest  order  of  manhood  and 
womanhood,  the  courage  to  seek  and  to 
speak  the  truth;  the  courage  to  be  just; 
the  courage  to  be  honest;  the  courage  to 
resist  temptation;  the  courage  to  do  one's 
duty.  Samuel  Smiles. 

Our  character  is  but  the  stamp  on  our 
souls  of  the  free  choice  of  good  or  evil  we 
have  made  through  life. 

C.  Geikie. 


8S  jflBarcb  28. 

(~10D  is  our  refuge  and  stre?igth,  a  very  pres- 
ent help  in  trouble. — Psalms  xlvi.  i. 


Live  for  to-day !  to-morrow's  light 
To-morrow's  cares  shall  bring  to  sight. 
Go  sleep  like  closing  flowers  at  night, 
And  Heaven  thy  morn  will  bless. 

John  Keble. 


XET  us  remember  that  greatness  of 
actio*  depends  on  two  other  kinds  of 
greatness;  on  our  appreciation  of  the  great- 
ness of  the  manner  of  doing  what  is  good, 
and  our  appreciation  of  the  greatness  of 
the  occasion  when  it  can  be  done.  .  .  It 
has  been  well  said,  by  an  eminent  French 
writer,  that  the  true  calling  of  a  Christian 
is  not  to  do  extraordinary  things,  but  to  do 
ordinary  things  in  an  extraordinary  way. 
The  most  trivial  tasks  can  be  accomplished 
in  a  noble,  gentle,  regal  spirit,  which  over- 
rides and  puts  aside  all  petty,  paltry  feel- 
ings, and  which  elevates  all  little  things. 

Dean  Stanley. 


/HSarcb  29.  89 

T^OR  as  many  as  are  led  by  the  Spirit  of  God^ 
they  are  the  sons  of  God. — Romans  viii.  14. 
•i- 

♦|pOBERT  BURNS  lamented  that  he 
■■^  could  not  "pour  out  his  inmost  soul 
without  reserve  to  any  human  being,  with- 
out danger  of  one  day  repenting  his  confi- 
dence." He  commenced  a  journal  of  his 
own  mental  history,  "as  a  substitute,"  he 
said,  "for  a  confidential  friend."  He  would 
have  something  "  which  he  could  record 
hij?iself  m^*'  without  peril  of  having  his  con- 
fidence betrayed.  We  all  need  prayer,  as  a 
means  of  such  intercourse  with  a  friend  who 
will  be  true  to  us.  Austin  Phelps. 


Hold  fast  upon  God  with  one  hand,  and 
open  wide  the  other  to  your  neighbor,  that 
is  religion  ;  that  is  the  law  and  the 
prophets,  and  the  true  way  to  all  better 
things.  George  Macdonald. 

-I- 

'Tis  not  the  whole  of  life  to  live, 
Nor  all  of  death  to  die. 

James  Montgomery. 


9°  /libarcb  30» 

AND  also  that  every  man  should  eat  atid 
drink,  and  enjoy  the  good  of  all  his  labor, 
it  is  the  gift  of  God. — Eccl.  iii.  13. 


Few  know  of  life's  beginnings — men  behold 
The  goal  achieved  ;  the  warrior,  when  his 

sword 
Flashes  red  triumph  in  the  noonday  sun  ; 
The  poet,  when  his  lyre  hangs  on  the  palm; 
The  statesman,  when   the  crowd   proclaim 

his  voice, 
And  mold  opinion  on  his  gifted  tongue  ; 
They  count  not  life's  first  steps,  and  never 

think 
Upon  the  many  miserable  hours 
When  hope   deferred    was  sickness   to  the 

heart. 
They  reckon  not  the  battle  and  the  march. 
The  long  privation  of  a  wasted  youth  : 
They  never  see  the  banner  till  unfurled. 

L.   E.   Landon. 


z 


ELL  me  upon  what  you  pride  yourself, 
and  I  will  tell  you  vv-hat  you  are  not. 

Amiel. 


^arcb  31.  91 

/OZT  how  great  is  thy  good?tess,  which  thou  hast 

laid  up  for  them  that  fear   thee ;   which 

thou    hast   wrought  for    them    that    trust    in 

thee  before  the  sons  of  men  ! — Psalms  xxxi.  19. 


Lord  of  earth,  thy  bounteous  hand 
Well  this  glorious  frame  hath  planned  ; 
Woods  that  wave  and  hills  that  tower, 
Ocean  rolling  in  his  power  ; 
All  that  strikes  the  gaze  unsought. 
All  that  charms  the  lonely  thought ; 
Friendship — gem  transcending  price  ; 
Love — a  flower  from  Paradise  ! 
Yet  amid  this  scene  so  fair. 
Should  I  cease  Thy  smiles  to  share, 
What  were  all  its  joys  to  me  ! 
Whom  have  I  in  earth  but  Thee  ? 

Sir  Robert  Grant. 


©OD  does  not  take  away  trials  or  carr)^ 
us  over  them,  but  strengthens  us  through 
them. 

E.    B.    PUSEY. 


92  Bprll  l» 

jDUTtt  is  good  for  lue  to  draw  7iear  to  God. — 
Psalms  Ixxxiii.  28. 

Envy  detects  the  spots  in  the  clear  orb  of 

light, 
And  Love,  the  little  stars  in  the  gloomiest 
night.  R.  C.  Trench. 

•!- 
In  truthfulness  of  act,  be  faith  seen. 

Edwin  Arnold. 
'^ 

mINDNESS,  and  honesty,  and  truth,  are 
of  themselves,  and  irrespective  of 
their  rightness,  sweet  unto  the  taste  of  the 
inner  man.  Thomas  Chalmers. 

►J- 

Morning  devotion  anchors  the  soul,  so 
that  it  will  not  drift  away  from  God  during 
the  day.  Rev.   C.   H.   Spurgeon. 

The  answer  to  prayer  is  slow  ;  the  force 
of  prayer  is  cumulative.  Not  till  life  is 
over  is  the  v/hole  answer  given  ;  the  whole 
strength  it  has  brought  understood. 

Stopford  Brooke. 


Bprll  2.  93 

QEEK   goodj    and  not   evil,    that  you    may 
live. — Amos  v.  15. 

mOTHING  deepens  the  mind  so  much 
as  a  habit  of  charity.  Charity  cannot 
feed  on  surfaces.  Its  instinct  is  always  to 
go  deeper.  Roots  are  its  natural  food.  A 
man's  surfaces  are  always  worse  than  his 
real  depths.  .  .  Self  is  the  only  person 
who  does  not  improve  on  acquaintance. 
Frederick  W.  Faber,  D.  D. 

God  loves  from  whole  to  parts  ;  but  human 

soul 
Must  rise  from  individual  to  the  whole. 
Self-love  but  serves  the  virtuous   m.ind  to 

wake, 
As  the  small  pebble  stirs  the  peaceful  lake  : 
The  center  moved,  a  circle  straight  succeeds, 
Another  still,  and  still  another  spreads  ; 
Friend,      parent,      neighbor,     first     it   will 

embrace  ; 
His  country  next,  and  next  all  human  race; 
Wide    and    more  wide,    th'   o'erflowings  of 

the  mind 
Take  every  creature  in,  of  every  kind. 

\VlLLIAM    ShAKSPEARE. 


94  Bpril  3. 

'T^RUL  V  God  is  good  to  Israel^  even  to  such  as 
are  of  a  clean  heart. — Psalms  Ixxxiii.    i. 


Aly  days  are  S7uifter  than  a  weaver  s  shuttle.  — 

Job  vii.  6. 

►J* 

fN  the  morning  fix  thy  good  purpose;  and 
at  night  examine  thyself  what  thou  hast 
done,  how  thou  hast  behaved  thyself  in 
word,  deed,  and  thought. 

Thomas  a  Kempis. 
•!• 
All  that  springs  out  of  perverted  desire — 
Envy  and  hatred  and  jealousy's  fire, 
Gaunt  misconceptions,  in  ignorance  bred, 
Misunderstandings  by  selfishness  led, 
The  tongueless  silences  of  the  soul's  night. 
Crude,  aimless  stirrings  toward  some  phan- 
tom height — 
These  through  life's  portals  may   not   enter 

in. 
Fruits  of  iniquity,  ignorance,  sin. 
These  are  the  perishing  parts  of  the  soul, 
These  have  no  place  in   the   grand   perfect 
whole. 

Eliza  Lamb  Martyn. 


Bprfl  4,  95 

l\/fy  mouth  shall  speak  of  wisdom;  and  the 
meditations  of  my  heart  shall  be  of  under- 
standing. — Psalms  xlix.  3. 

HRE  there  not  two  kinds  of  gift  and  of 
charitable  worlc  in  the  world — benevo- 
lence and  sympathy  ?  The  works  of 
benevolence,  it  seems  to  me,  can  be 
counted,  and  measured,  and  reported.  But 
the  work  of  sympathy,  who  can  see  or 
measure  that  ?  And  yet  without  the 
sympathy,  which  can  no  more  be  measured 
than  sunlight,  the  works  of  benevolence  are 
apt  to  stiffen  into  mere  machinery. — Author^ 
Schonberg-Cotta  Family. 

O  Time  flies  fast,  he  winna  wait 

My  friend  for  you  or  me  ; 
He  works  his  wonders  day  by  day, 

And  onward  still  doth  flee. 

P.   Livingstone. 

Moses  received  the  tablets  from  Mt.  Sinai, 
and  even  we,  when  weary,  lift  up  our  eyes 
to  the  hills  for  strength. 

C.  H.  Capen. 


9^  Bpril  5» 

T^OR    there   is    no   poiver    but    of    God. — 
Romans  xiii.  i. 

^^^HERE  is  something  prophetic  in 
Wl^  thought  and  in  emotion.  In  the  heart 
of  our  imperfect  knowledge  there  is  lodged 
the  hope  of  a  perfect  wisdom.  At  the  end 
of  our  broken  reasonings  there  shines  the 
light  of  a  higher  truth.  All  our  conclusions, 
all  our  theories,  all  our  aspirations,  point 
forward.  Our  very  defects  are  intimations 
of  a  future  development,  and  our  limita- 
tions are  but  barriers  which  we  are  gaining 
strength  to  overleap.  What  is  it  all  worth 
unless  there  be  a  beyond  ?  What  are  the 
attainments  and  acquisitions  of  our  three- 
score and  ten  years,  unless  they  are  to  be 
completed  and  perfected  and  applied  in  a 
hereafter?  But  Reason  herself  breaks  the 
chains  of  such  a  despairing  doctrine.  She 
shapes  her  wings  to  fly.  She  anticipates 
immortality.  H.  J.  Van  Dyke. 

Be  patient,  be  patient  :  for  Patience  hath 

power, 
To  ward  us  in  danger,  like  m.antle  in  shower. 
Sir  Walter  Scott. 


Bprll  6.  97 

T  WAIT  for  the  Lord,  7ny  soul  doth  wait,  and 
in  his  ivord  do  I  hope. — Psalms  cxxx.  5. 


♦I|5UT  the  life  of  man  upon  this  earth  i« 
^W  made  up,  for  the  most  part,  of  little 
pains  and  little  pleasures.  The  great 
v/onder-flowers  bloom  but  once  in  a  life- 
time. Anonymous. 

The  sea  of  fortune  doth  not  ever  flov/, 
She  draws  her  favors  to  the  lowest  ebb. 

Her  time  hath  equal  times  to  come  and  go. 
Her  loom  doth  weave  the  fine  and  coarsest 
web; 

No  joy  so  great  but  runneth  to  an  end, 

Nor  hap  so  hard  but  may  in  time  amend. 

Not  always  fall  of  leaf,  nor  ever  spring. 

No  endless  night,  yet  not  eternal  day; 
The  saddest  birds  a  season  find  to  sing. 
The    roughest   storm   a    calm    may    soon 
allay; 
Thus  with  succeeding  turns  God  tempereth 

all, 
That  man  may  hope  to  rise,  yet  fear  to  fall. 
Robert  Southwell. 


98  april  7. 

J  ET  thine  Jiand  help   inc:  for  I  have  chosen 
thy  precepts. — Psalms  cxix.  173. 


Thought  is  deeper  than  all  speech, 
Feeling  deeper  than  all  thought; 

Souls  to  souls  can  never  teach 

What  unto  themselves  was  taught. 

Christopher  T.  Cranch. 


jpROM  the  sunlit  heights  of  life,  the 
Jl  deep  vales  and  hollows  of  its  necessi- 
ties look  darkest;  but  to  the  faithful  whose 
path  lies  there,  there  is  still  light  enough 
to  show  the  way,  and  to  no  other  eyes  do 
the  everlasting  hills  and  blue  heavens  seem 
so  brilliant.  James  Martineau. 

The  serene,  silent  beauty  of  a  holy  life 
is  the  most  powerful  influence  in  the  world 
next  to  the  might  of  the  spirit  of  God. 

Rev.  Charles  H.  Spurgeon. 

The  character  is  the  radical  impress  which 
the  will  assumes  from  the  series  of  its  acts. 

Fr.  Hall. 


Bprfl  8,  99 

lUTAKEme  to  go  in  the  path  of  thy  cojnmand- 
ments. — Psalms  cxix.  35, 

'^^HERE  is  a  beautiful  precept  which  he 

Vl^  who  has  received  an  injury,  or  thinks 

he  has,  would,  for  his  own  sake,  do  well  to 

follow — ''  Excuse     half,    and     forgive    the 

rest."  Anonymous. 

►J- 

The  honey-bee  that  wanders  all  day  long 
The  field,  the  woodland,  and  the  garden 

o'er, 
To  gather  in  his  fragrant  winter  store, 
Humming  in  calm^  content  his  quiet  song, 
Seeks  not  alone  the  rose's  glowing  breast, 
The  lily's  dainty  cup,  the  violet's  lips, 
But  from  all  rank  and  noxious  weeds  he 
sips 
The  single  drop  of  sweetness  closely  pressed 
Within  the  poison  chalice.     Thus,  if  we 
Seek  only  to  draw  forth  the  hidden  sv/eet 
In  all  the  varied  human  flowers  vv^e  meet 
In  all  the  wide  garden  of  humanity. 
And,    like   the  bee,   if   home    the    spoil   we 

bear. 
Hived  in  our  hearts  it  turns  to  nectar  there. 
Mrs.  Anne  (Lynch)  Botta. 


loo  Bpril  9, 

l/'OU'J^  Father  hioweth  what  things  ye  have 
need  of . — Matthew  vi.  8. 

LovEj  Truth,  and  Beauty — all  are  one  ! 

If  life  may  expiate 
The  wilderings    of    its   dimness,    death  be 
known 
But  as  the  mighty  ever-living  gate 
Into  the  Beautiful — 

All  things  flow  on 
Into  one  Heart,  into  one  Melody,  Eternally. 
Wm.  James  Linton. 

||VREPARE  thy  soul  to  obey;  such 
l|V  offering  will  be  more  acceptable  to 
God   than  every  other  sacrifice. 

Metastasio. 

III  weeds  grow  apace — covetousness, 
discontent,  and  murmuring  are  as  natural 
to  man  as  thorns  are  to  the  soil.  AVe  need 
not  sow  thistles  and  brambles;  they  come 
up  naturally  enough,  because  they  are 
indigenous  to  earth:  but  the  precious  things 
of  the  earth  must  be  cultivated. 

P.EV.  Charles  H.  Spurgeon. 


J/f/^  then  that  are  strong  ought  to  bear  the 
infirmities  of  the  weak,  and  not  to  please 
ourselves. — Romans  xv.  i. 


For  if  a  man  find  his  enemy ^  will  he  let  him 
go  well  away  2  wherefore  the  Lord  reward 
thee  good,  for  that  thou  hast  done  unto  me  this 
day.  Saul  to  David. 

Oft,  unknowingly,  the  tongue 

Touches  on  a  chord  so  aching 
That  a  word  or  accent  wrong 

Pains  the  heart  almost  to  breaking. 
Many  a  tear  of  wounded  pride, 

Many  a  fault  of  human  blindness. 
Has  been  soothed  or  turned  aside 

By  a  voice  of  quiet  kindness. 

Hannah   More. 

ME  can  hardly  tell  what  we  should 
have  been  had  we  been  treated  less 
kindly  than  we  have  been.  Have  we  not 
sometimes  been  on  the  verge  of  doing  some- 
thing which  a  life  would  have  been  short  to 
repent  of  ? 

Frederick  W.   Faber. 


I02  2lpdl  11. 

1\^ ARK  the  perfect  man^  and  behold  the  up- 
right J  for  the  end  of  that  man  is  peace. 
— Psalms  xxxvii.  37. 

Make  thy  life 
A  gift  of  use  to  thee; 
A  joy,  a  good,  a  golden  hope, 
A  heavenly  argosy. 

B.   W.   Procter. 

•J* 

'^'HE  life  here  and  the  life  hereafter  are 
^J^  one.  There  is  but  one  ideal  set  before 
us.  We  are  to  think  by  it,  work  by  it,  aspire 
to  it  in  this  world,  and  then,  lest  our  heart 
fail  at  the  sad  disparity  between  us  and  the 
divine  type,  lo  !  the  heavens  are  opened  to 
us,  and  we  see  our  Lord  putting  His  own 
hand  to  our  work  so  feebly  begun.  He 
presents  us  at  last  faultless  to  His  Father 
and  our  Father,  before  the  presence  of  His 
glory  with  exceeding  joy. 

Jacob  H.   Ecob. 

Love  is  the  emblem  of  eternity. 

Mme.   De  Stael. 

Do  justly,  and  to  love  mercy,  and  to  walk 
humbly  with  thy  God. — Micah  vi.  8. 


Bprtl  12.  103 

J^OR  he  is  our  God ;  and  ive  are  the  people 

of  his  pasture,  a  fid  the  sheep  of  his  hand. 

To-day   if  ye  will  hear   his   voice. — Psalms 

xcv.  7. 

'^ 

I  BELIEVE  it !     'Tis  thou,  God,  that  givest, 
'tis  I  who  receive: 

In    the  first  is   the  last,  in  Thy  will  is   my 
power  to  believe; 

All's  one   gift  :  Thou  canst  grant  it  more- 
over, as  prompt  to  my  prayer. 

As  I  breathe  out  this  breath,  as  I  open  these 
arms  to  the  air. 

Robert  Browning. 

♦ITT    is    right    to    look    our    self-accounts 
■I   bravely  in  the  face  now  and  then,  and 
to  settle  them  bravely. 

Charlotte  Bronte. 
>^ 
The  thoughts  which  nestle  within  us,  and 
issue  from  us  in  language  and  in  act,  deter- 
mine our  moral  character.  The  most  ex- 
quisite piece  of  sculpture  which  a  Powers 
or  a  Palmer  ever  carved,  was  once  only 
a  thought. 

Theodore  L.   Cuyler. 


I04  Bpril  13, 

TN  God  I  will  praise  his  word,  in  God  I  have 
put  my  trust ;  I  will  not  fear  what  flesh  can 
do  unto  me. — Psalms  Ivi.  4. 


1^  HUMBLE  man  is  a  joyous  man. 
'^'V  There  is  no  worship  where  there  is  no 
joy.  For  worship  is  something  more  than 
either  the  fear  of  God  or  the  love  of  Him. 
It  is  delight  in  Him. 

Frederick  W.   Faber. 

We  judge  men   by  our    own    standards  : 
judge  our  nearest  and  dearest  often  wrong. 

Thackeray. 

Angels  of  light,  spread   your  bright  wings 
and  keep 

Near  me  at  morn; 
Nor  in  the  starry  eve,  nor  midnight  deep, 

Leave  me  forlorn. 

From  all  foreboding  thoughts  and  danger- 
ous fears 
Keep  me  secure. 

Adelaide  A.   Procter. 


Bpril  14,  105 

n^O  depart  from  evil  is  understanding. — Job 
xxviii.  I,  28. 


'^f^HERE  is  no  noble  life  save  that  which 
^^  is  lived  above  the  uncharitableness, 
the  discontent,  which  fills  human  inter- 
course every  day.  .  .  At  the  last  there 
can  be  no  beauty  for  you  or  me  but  the 
beauty  of  holiness. 

Mrs.   Mary  Clemmer  Hudson. 


There  is  no  road  to  the  attainment  of 
the  ideal  except  by  a  bold  and  successful 
dealing  with  the  real. 

Anonymous. 

•^ 

Nay  ;  song  and  love  and  lofty  aims 
May  never  be  where  faith  is  not  : 

Strong  souls  within  the  present  live  ; 
The  future  veiled,  the  past  forgot  : 

Grasping  what  is,  with  hands  of  steel, 
They  bend  alike  to  doubt  and  dread. 

The  end,  for  which  they  are,  fulfill. 

Lewis  Morris. 


io6  :apru  15. 

J^LESSED  are  they  that  keep  judgment^  and 
he  that  doeth  righteousness  at  all  times.  — 
Psalms  cvi.  3. 

►^ 

COMMONPLACE  though  it  may  appear, 
this  doing  of  one's  duty  embodies  the 
highest  ideal  of  life  and  character.  There 
may  be  nothing  heroic  about  it  ;  but  the 
common  lot  of  men  is  not  heroic. 

Samuel  Smiles. 

The  most  delicate,  the  most  sensible  of 
all  pleasure,  consists  in  promoting  the 
pleasure  of  others.  La  Bruyere. 

►i- 

There  is  no  action  so  slight  nor  so  mean 
but  it  may  be  done  to  a  great  purpose, 
and  ennobled  therefor  ;  nor  is  any  purpose 
so  great  but  that  slight  actions  may  help 
it,  may  be  so  done  as  to  help  it  much, 
most  especially  that  chief  of  all  purposes — 
the  pleasing  of  God.  John  Ruskin. 

This  is  the  vital  principle  in  Christian 
life  ;  we  can  give  out  to  others  only  what 
God  has  given  to  us. 

Rev.  J.  R.  Miller,  D.  D. 


Bprfl  16.  107 

/O  GIVE  thajiks  unto  the  Lord;  call  upon  his 
na?7ie  :  7nakc  known   his  deeds  mnong   the 
people. — Psalms  cv.    i. 

'^T^O  be  our  own  is  to  be  full  of  anxiet}-. 
^^  To  be  His  is  to  cast  all  our  care  upon 
Him.  Anonymous. 

Our  Father  rules  !  why  should  we  shrink  in 

fear  ; 
Why  should  we  mourn  because  our  path  is 

drear  ? 
Why  heed  the  petty  ills  that  line  life's  way  ; 
Mere   wayside   weeds,    they  flourish    for  a 

day  ; 
Immortal  life  is  ours  !  and  heaven  is  near. 
Julia  A.    F,   Carney. 

He  in  whom  God  lives,  liveth  evermore. 
Dinah  Mulock  Craik. 

We  know  that  Heaven  chastens  those 
whom  it  loves  best  ;  being  pleased,  by 
repeated  trials,  to  make  .  .  .  pure  spirits 
more  pure.  Thackeray. 

Freely  ye  have  received,  freely  give. — 
Matthew  x.  8. 


io8  Bpril  17» 

A/fy  meditation  of  Jmn  shall  be  siveet:  I  will 
be  glad  in  the  Lo7'd. — Psalms  civ.  34. 

>^||V  Y  idea  is  this  :  ever  onward.  If  God 
XllJ  had  intended  that  man  should  go 
backward,  he  would  have  given  him  an 
eye  in  the  back  of  his  head.  Let  us  look 
always  toward  the  dawn,  the  blossom-time, 
the  hour  of  birth.  Victor  Hugo. 

Onward  forever  flows  the  tide  of  Life, 
Still  broadening,  gathering  to  itself  the  rills 
That  made  dim  music  in  the  primal  hills, 
And  tossing  crested  waves  of  joy  and  strife. 
We  watch  it  rising  where  no  seeds  are  rife, 
But  fire  the  elemental  vortex  fills  ; 
Through   plant  and    beast    it   streams,   till 

human  wills 
Unfold  the  sanctities  of  human  life. 
Further  we  see  not.     But  here  faith  joins 

hands 
With  reason.      Life  that  onvv^ard  came  to  us 
From   simple   to  more    complex,  still   must 

flow 
Forward    and    forward    through    far   wider 

lands. 

John  Addington  Symonds. 


Bpril  18.  109 

T^VER  V  one  that  lovetJi  is  born  of  God.  — 
I  John  iv,  7. 


ME  cannot  measure  the  strength  and 
peace  and  hope  and  joy  which  is 
brought  to  many  a  troubled  soul  by  the 
thought  of  any  pure  and  blameless  youth, 
even  in  the  humblest  station  of  life,  strug- 
gling manfully  and  successfully  against  the 
evil  influences  which  would  lead  him  astray 
from  the  paths  of  innocence.  .  .  May  God 
bless  them,  whoever  and  wherever  they  may 
be,  for  the  inestimable  blessing  which  they 
unconsciously,   but  most  surely,   confer  on 

the  world. 

Dean   Stanley. 


If  you  have  known  yourself  to  have  failed, 
you  may  trust,  when  it  comes,  the  strange 
consciousness  of  success;  if  you  have  faith- 
fully loved  the  noble  work  of  others,  you 
need  not  fear  to  speak  of  things  duly  done, 

of  your  own. 

John  Ruskin. 


^^o  2lpr«  19. 

r  IGHT  is  S01V71  for  the  righteous,  a7id  glad- 
ness for   the   upright  in  heart. — Psalms 
xcvii.  II. 

-ifJVERY  yesterday  is  talking  to,  instruct- 
>*^  ing  to-day.  .  .  We  must  live  in,  and 
because  of,  yesterdays.  Their  life  enters 
into  ours.  Not  only  yesterday  speaks  to  to- 
day, but  what  yesterday  says  decides  what 
to-day  is.  He  lives  well  and  wisely  who  has 
the  speech  of  each  day  as  it  goes,  vv^ho  hears 
and  heeds  the  voice  it  utters. 

J.  F.  W.  Ware. 

When  a  great  man  has  a  dark  corner  in 
him,  it  is  terribly  dark. 

Goethe. 

Providence  is  like  a  curious  piece  of 
needlework,  made  up  of  a  thousand  shreds, 
which,  singly,  we  know  not  what  to  make  of, 
but  put  together  in  order,  they  represent  a 
beautiful  history  to  the  eye. 

Flavel. 

I  COUNSEL  thee  to  buy  of  me  gold  tried 
in  the  fire. — Rev.  iii.  i8. 


Bpril  20.       ^  i^i 

HTHE  heaven  is  7ny  throne,  and  the  earth  is 
my  footstool. — Isaiah  Ixvi.  i. 


♦flp^AVE  soine  convictions,  some  real  opin- 
■B*^  ions,  some  worthy  hopes;  and  be  loyal 
to,  and  in  earnest  about,  whatever  you  do 
pin  your   faith   to. 

Mrs.   J.  EwiNG. 

Conscience  is  nothing  else  but  the  echo 
of  God's  voice  within  the  soul. 

Fr.  Hall. 
•I- 

0  Lord  my  God,  'tis  early  dawn, 

And  I  would  walk  with  Thee  to-day  ! 
Clothe  me  in  garments  white  and  clean, 

All  bright  and  beautiful,  I  pray. 
Grant  I  may  walk  with  greatest  care. 

So  I  may  keep  their  luster  bright; 
To-day,  my  Father,  hear  my  prayer, 

And  let  me  walk  with  Thee  in  white. 

S.  J.  Currier. 

God  dwells  in  the  soul  whose  stainless  days 
Are  sweet  in  His  sight  as  a  hymn  of  praise. 
Frances  T.  Gill. 


112  BprU  21. 

ATOT  every   o?ie   that  saith  unto   me   Lord, 
Lord,    shall  enter   into   the    kingdom    of 
heavefi  j  but  he  that  docth  fJie  will  of  my  Father 
which  is  in  heaven. — Matthew  vii.  21. 

►I* 
True  knowledge  leads  to  love; 
True  dignity  abides  with  him  alone 
Who,  in  the  silent  hour  of  inward  thought, 
Can  still  respect  and  still  revere  himself. 
In  lowliness  of  heart. 

Wm.  Wordsworth. 

♦JI^EVERENCE  is  the  chief  joy  and 
ll\  power  of  life:  reverence  for  that  which 
is  pure  and  bright  in  youth;  for  what  is 
true  and  tried  in  age;  for  all  that  is  gracious 
among  the  living,  great  among  the  dead, 
and  marvelous  in  the  powers  that  cannot 
die.  John  Ruskin. 

All  the  grandest  enterprises  of  benevo- 
lence, and  all  the  most  stupendous  crimes, 
were  once  only  invisible  phantoms  in  some 
man's  or  woman's  busy  brain.  .  .  The  very 
Bible  is  only  God's  blessed  and  holy  thought 
revealed  to  us;  by  it  we  are  made  wise  unto 
salvation.  Theodore  L.  Cuyler. 


Bpril  22,  113 

HTHE  effectual  fervent  prayer  of  a  righteous 
man  availeth  much. — James  v.  16. 

F  instead  of  a  gem,  or  even  a  flower,  we 
could  cast  the  gift  of  a  lovely  thought 
into  the  heart  of  a  friend,  that  would  be 
giving  as   the  angels   must  give. 

George  MacDonald. 

Neglect  not  to  improve  life  in  the  pres- 
ent with  superior  persons:  for  opportunity 
is  precious.  Persian — Saadi. 

►I- 

What  I  must  do  is  all  that  concerns  me, 
not  what  the  people  think.  It  is  easy  in 
the  v/orld  to  live  after  the  world's  opinion: 
it  is  easy  in  solitude  to  live  after  our  ov/n: 
but  the  great  man  is  he  who  in  the  midst 
of  the  crowd  keeps,  with  perfect  sweetness, 
the  independence  of  solitude. 

R.  W.  Emerson. 

God  does  not  demand  impossibilities. 
Do    what   you   can. 

St.  Augustine. 


114  Bpril  23 

/O   SING  unto  the  Lord  a  new  song  :  for  he 

hath      '  '  "  *  ^ 

xcviii.  I 


hath     done     marvelous     things. — Psalms 


''  What  shall  I  do  to  gain  eternal  life  ? 

Discharge  aright 
The   simple   dues   with    which   each   day   is 
rife  ?  " 

Yea,  with  thy  might. 
Ere  perfect  scheme  of  action  thou  devise, 

Will  life  be  fled; 
While  he  who  ever  acts  as  conscience  cries, 

Shall  live,  though  dead. 

Schiller. 

fT  was  once  said  in  mournful  complaint 
of  the  highest  ecclesiastic  in  Christen- 
dom. "  For  the  sake  of  gaining  to-day, 
he  has  thrown  away  to-morrow  forever." 
Be  our  policy  the  reverse  of  this;  be  it  ours 
to  fasten  our  thoughts,  not  on  the  passions 
and  parties  of  the  brief  to-day,  but  on  the 
hopes  of  the  long  to-morrow.  The  day,  the 
year  may  perchance  belong  to  the  destruc- 
tives, the  cynics,  and  the  partisans.  But 
the  morrow  .  .  .  belongs  to  the  catholic, 
comprehensive,  discriminating,  all-embrac- 
ing Christianity.  Dean  Stanley. 


BpvU  24  115 

(^HALL  the  clay  say  to  him  that  fashioneth 
ity  what  makest  thou  ? — Isaiah  xlv.  9. 


-^T^HE  sense  of  right  can  more  readily 
^*^  indurate  the  tender  than  melt  the 
rocky  soul,  and  that  is  the  most  finished 
character  which  begins  in  beauty  and  ends 
in  power;  that  leans  on  the  love  of  kindred 
while  it  may,  and  when  it  may  not  can  stand 
erect  in  the  love  of  God;  that  shelters  itself 
amid  the  domesticities  of  life  while  duty 
wills,  and  when  it  forbids  can  go  forth 
under  the  expanse  of  immortality,  and  face 
any  storm  that  beats,  and  traverse  any 
wilderness  that  lies  beneath  that  canopy. 
James  Martineau. 


If  what  shows  afar  so  grand. 
Turn  to  nothing  in  thy  hand, 
On  again;  the  virtue  lies 
In  the  struggle,  not  the  prize. 

R.    M.    MiLNES. 

Wise  in  heart,  and  mighty  in  strength. 
Job  ix.  4. 


ii6  Bprll  25. 

J  OVE  is  of  God. — I  John  iv,  7. 

^J;JOME  little  act  done,  all  secretly  and 
<^  unknov/n,  for  Jesus,  is  not  forgotten 
by  Him;  every  victory  gained  over  some 
habit,  or  temper,  or  inclination;  every 
earnest  and  prayerful  resolution  carried  into 
effect  by  His  spirit  helping  you,  does  not 
lose   its   rev/ard.  C.  I.   Atherton. 

Be   patient;    oh,  be   patient!    put  your  ear 

against  the  earth. 
Listen  there  how  noiselessly  the  germ  o'  the 

seed  has  birth; 
How  noiselessly  and  gently  it  upheaves  its 

little  way. 
Till   it  parts   the   scarcely   broken   ground, 

and  the  blade  stands  up  in  the  day. 
Richard  C.  Trench. 

Lean,    then,     securely    on    the    Eternal 
Lav/,   which    underlies    all    life    and    death. 

Dean  Stanley. 

Serve  the  Lord  with  gladness:   come  be- 
fore his  presence  with  singing. — Psalms  c.  2. 


Bprll  26,  117 

/JJVD  now,  O  Father,  glorify  thou  me  with 
thine  own  self. — John  xvii.  5. 


mIND  thoughts  are  rarer  than  either 
kind  words  or  kind  deeds.  They 
imply  a  great  deal  of  thinking  about  others. 
.  .  They  imply  also  a  great  deal  of  think- 
ing about  others  without  the  thoughts 
being  criticisms.  .  .  But  kind  thoughts 
imply  also  a  contact  with  God,  and  a  divine 
ideal  in  our  minds. 

Frederick  W.  Faber. 


There  are  tones  that  will  haunt  us,  though 
lonely 
Our  path  be  o'er  mountain  or  sea; 
There  are  looks  that  will  part  from  us  only 

When  memory  ceases  to  be; 
There    are    hopes   which    our    burden    can 
lighten. 
Though  toilsome  and  steep  be  the  way; 
And     dreams     that,     like     moonlight,    can 
brighten, 
With  a  light  that  is  clearer  than  day. 

WiNTHROP  MaCKWORTH   PrAED. 


ii8  Bprfl  27» 

r^  LORY  ye  in  his  holy  nanie  :   let  the  heart 
of    them    rejoice    that    seek    the    Lord. — 
Psalms  cv.  3, 

DI- 
DOES the  road  wind  up  hill  all  the  way  ? 

Yes!  to  the  very  end. 
But  will   the  journey  take  the  whole  long 
day  ? 
From  morn  till  night,  my  friend. 

Christina  Rossetti. 
•I- 

"  And  for  success,  I  ask  no  more  than  this  : 
To  bear  unflinching  witness  to  the  truth." 

MHAT  can  we  say  of  success  in  life — 
that  noble  success  which  is  not 
merely  that  of  personal  pride  but  of 
general  advancement — that  is  truer  than 
these  v/ords  ?  and  how  can  anyone  '^  bear 
unflinching  witness  to  the  truth "  who 
knows  little  and  cares  less  what  the  truth 
of  to-day  is  ?  Lilian  Whiting. 

Destiny  is  not 
About  thee,  but  within;  thyself  must  make 
Thyself  the  agonizing  throes  of  Thought: 
These     bring     forth     glory,     bring     forth 
destiny.  Coates  Kinney. 


Bprtl  2S.  119 

n^HEY  helped  everyone  his  neighbour  ;  and 
every  one  said  to  his  brother^  Be  of  good 
courage. — Isaiah  xli.  6. 

BUT  the  great  reasons  are  self-command 
and  trust  unagitated,  and  deep-looking 
Love,  and  Faith,  which,  as  she  is  above 
Reason,  so  she  best  holds  the  reins  of  it 
from  her  high  seat.  John  Ruskin. 

The  straightest  way,  perhaps,  which  may  be 

sought 
Lies  through  the  great  highway  men  call — 

I  ought.  Anonymous. 

Words  are   good ;  but  there   is  something 
better. 

The  best  is  not  to  be  explained  by  words. 

The   spirit   in    which    we    act    is    the    chief 
matter. 

Action  can  only  be  understood  and  repre- 
sented by  the  spirit. 

Goethe. 

Ah,  but  a  man's  reach  should  exceed  his 
grasp,  or  what's  a  Heaven  for  ? 

Robert  Browning. 


I20  Bprll  20. 

QEEK  the  Lord^  and  his  strength  :  seek  his 
face  evermore. — Psalms  cv.  4. 


'^T'HE  Christian  is  he  whose  life-work 
^^  glows  and  grows  under  his  hand;  who 
is  conscious  of  an  unceasing  call  for  strenu- 
ous activity;  who  takes  for  his  watchword 
the  great  apostle's  question,  "Lord,  what 
wilt  thou  have  me  to  do  ?  " 

Rev.  a.   p.  Peabody. 


.   .   .    Far  through  the  misty  future, 
With  a  crown  of  starry  light. 

An  hour  of  joy  you  know  not 
Is  winging  her  silent  flight. 

Pray  :  though  the  gift  you  ask  for 

May  never  comfort  your  fears, 
May  never  repay  your  pleading, 

Yet  pray,  and  with  hopeful  tears 
An  ansv^er — not  that  you  long  for. 

But  diviner — v/ill  come  one  day: 
Your  eyes  are  too  dim  to  see  it. 

Yet  strive,  and  wait,  and  pray. 

Adelaide  A.  Procter. 


Bpril  30.  121 

T  WILL  lift  tip  jmne  eyes  unto  the  hills,  fj-om 
whence  coineth  my  help. — Psalms  cxxi.  i. 


.    .    .    The  high-born  soul 
Disdains  to  rest  her  heaven-aspiring  wing 
Beneath  its  native  quarry.     Tired  of  Earth 
And  this  diurnal  scene,  she  springs  aloft 
Through  fields  of  air  ;  pursues   the   flying 

storm  ; 
Rides  on  the  volleyed  lightning  through  the 

heavens  ; 
Or,  yoked  with  whirlwinds  and  the  northern 

blast, 
Sweeps  the  long  tract  of  day.    .    . 

.    .    .    For,  from  the  birth 
Of  mortal  man,  the  sovereign  Maker  said 
That  not  in  humble  nor  in  brief  Delight, 
The   soul   should  find  enjoyment  :  but  from 

these. 
Turning  disdainful  to  an  equal  good, 
Through  all   the  ascent   of  things   enlarge 

her  view. 
Till  every  bound  at  length  should  disappear. 
And  infmite  perfection  close  the  scene. 

Mark  Akenside. 


122  ^ag  U 

r^OD  is  love. — I  John  iv.   8. 

Behold  ivJiat  manner  of  love  the  Father 
hath  bcstoived  upon  iis,  that  we  should  be  ealled 
the  sons  of  God. — i  John  iii.  i. 


May  I  reach 
That  purest  heaven  ;  be  to  other  souls 
The  cup  of  strength  in  some  great  agony, 
Enkindle  generous  ardor,  feed  pure  love, 
Beget  the  smiles  that  have  no  cruelty, 
Be  the  sweet  presence  of  a  good  diffused, 
And  in  diffusion  even  more  intense. 
So  shall  I  join  the  choir  invisible 
Whose  music  is  the  gladness  of  the  world. 

George  Eliot. 

/T^OD  is  a  kind  Father.  He  sets  us  all  ia 
^l^  the  places  where  He  wishes  us  to  be 
employed,  and  that  employment  is  truly 
'^our  Father's  business."  .  .  And  we 
may  always  be  cure,  whatever  we  are  doing, 
that  we  cannot  be  pleasing  Him  if  we  are 
not  happy  ourselves. 

John  Ruskin. 


T  JNTO  the  upright  there  ariseth  light  in    the 
darkness  :  he  is  gracious,  and  full  of  com- 
passion, and  righteous. — Psalms  cxii.  4. 

BE  wise  to  do  good.     Invent  ways,  create 
means,  find  subjects. 

There  is  also  the  importance  of  keep- 
ing in  touch  with  life.  .  .  To  touch  life 
at  all  points — to  touch  it  with  some  per- 
ception of  its  ideal  possibilities  and  of  its 
actual  realization,  and  to  hold  the  golden 
mean  of  fidelity  to  noble  standards  and 
charity  for  imperfect  results  is  the  educa- 
tion in  that  education  which  makes  wisdom. 
Lilian  Whiting. 


Love  all,  trust  a  few, 
Do  wrong  to  none  :  be  able  for  thine  enemy 
Rather  in  power  than   use  ;  and  keep  thy 

friend 
Under  thy  own  life's  key:  be  checked  for 

silence, 
But  never  taxed  for  speech. 

William  Shakspeare. 


124  /iftas  3. 

f~^REA  T peace  have  they  which  love  thy  law: 
a7id  7iothing  shall  offend  them. — Psalms 
cxix.  165. 

-!- 

HGOOD  deed  is  never  lost  ;  he  who  sows 
courtesy  reaps  friendship,  and   he  who 
plants  kindness  gathers  love. 

Basil. 

You  resemble  the  spirit  which  you  under- 
stand. Goethe. 

The  traces  of  human  deeds  fade  swiftly 
away  from  the  sunlighted  earth,  as  the 
transient  shades  of  thought  from  the  brow, 
but  nothing  is  lost  and  dissipated,  which 
the  rolling  hours,  replete  w^ith  secrets,  have 
received  into  their  dark,  creative  bosom. 
Time  is  a  blooming  field  ;  nature  is  ever 
teeming  with  life,  and  all  is  seed  and  all  is 
fruit.  Schiller. 

Not  wealth,  nor  ancestry,  but  honorable 
conduct  and  a  noble  disposition  will  make 
men  great.  Ovid. 

My  heart  trusted  in  him,  and  I  am  helped. 
— Psalms  xxviii.  7. 


"Y^HEY  that  sow  i?i  tea7's  shall  reap  in  joy. — 
Psalms  cxxvi.  5. 

♦fTN  the  common  things  of  everyday  life 
H   the  soul   must  prove  her  presence  and 
power,  if  they  be  proved  at  all. 

Rev.  Annis  L.  Ex\stman. 

Know,   then,  this  truth  (enough  for  man  to 

know), 
*' Virtue  alone  is  happiness  below." 

Slave  to  no  sect,  who  takes  no  private  road, 
But   looks  through  nature  up    to  Nature's 

God  ; 
Pursues  that  chain  which  links  the  immense 

design, 
Joins    heaven  and   earth,   and   mortal    and 

divine  ; 
Sees  that  no  being  any  bliss  can  know 
But  touches  some  above  and  some  below  : 
Learns  from  this  union  of  the  rising  whole 
The  first,  last  purpose  of  the  human  soul  ; 
And  knows  where   faith,     law,    morals    all 

began. 
All  end  in  love  of  God,  and  love  of  man. 
William  Shakspeare, 


126  ^a^  5» 

n^HERE  is  a  spirit  in  man  :  and  the  inspira- 
tion of  the  Almighty  giveth  them  under staiid- 
ing. — Job  xxxii.   8. 

jISCOURAGEMENT  serves  no  possi- 
ble purpose  ;  it  is  simply  the  despair 
of  wounded  self-love.  Nothing  but  the  con- 
sciousness of  your  own  weakness  can  make 
you  indulgent  and  pitiful  to  that  of  others. 
Love  God,  and  you  will  be  humble  ;  love 
God,  and  you  will  throw  off  the  love  of  self  ; 
love  God,  and  you  will  love  all  that  He 
gives  you  to  love  for  love  of  Him. 

Fenelon. 

Doing  good  is  the  only  certainly    happy 
action  of  a  man's   life. 

Sir  Philip  Sidney. 

Every  sound  that  breaks  the  silence  only 

makes  it  more  profound, 
Like  a  crash    of   deafening  thunder  in  the 

sweet  blue  stillness  drowned  ; 
Let  thy  soul  walk  softly  in  thee,  as  a  saint 

in  heaven  unshod. 
For  to  be  alone  with  silence  is  to  be  alone 

with  God. 

Samuel  Miller  Hageman. 


/IRa^  6.  127 


AJO  W faith  is  the  substance  of  things  hoped 
for,    the    evidence   of   things   not  seen. — 
Hebrews  xi.  i. 


Released  from  earth's  dull  round  of  cares, 
The  aspiring  soul  her  vigor  tries; 

Plumes  her  soiled  pinions,  and  prepares 
To  soar  amid  ethereal  skies. 

Around  us  float  in  changing  light 
The  dazzling  forms  of  distant  years, 

And  earth  becomes  a  glorious  sight. 
Beyond  which  opening  heaven  appears. 
O.  W.  P.  Peabody. 


What  appears  at  sight 
Extremely  heavy,  love  will  make  most  light. 
Christopher  Harvey. 


If  the  heart  v/as  rightly  disposed  every 
creature  would  be  a  book  of  divine  knowl- 
edge. Thomas  a  Kempis. 


128  ^a^  7» 

r^IVE  us  help  fro?}i  trouble :  for  vain  is  the 
help  of  man. — Psalms  cviii,  12. 


'^^HE  effective  life  and  the  receptive  life 
^^  are  one.  No  sweep  of  arm  that  does 
some  work  for  God  but  harvests  also  some 
more  of  the  truth  of  God,  and  sweeps  it 
into  the  treasury  of  life. 

TOANNA    BaTLLIE. 


**WiTH  joy  the  stars  perform  their  shining, 
And  the  sea  its  long,  moon-silvered  roll; . 

For  alone  they  live,  nor  pine  with  noting 
All  the  fever  of  some  differing  soul. 

**  Bounded  by  themselves,  and  unobservant 
In  what  state  God's  other  works  may  be. 

In  their  own  tasks  all  their  powers  pouring, 
These  attain  the  mighty  life  you  see." 

O  air-born  voice  !  long  since  severely  clear, 
A  cry  like  thine  in  my  own  heart  I  hear: 

''Resolve  to  be  thyself  ;  and  know  that  he 
Who  finds  himself  loses  his  misery." 

Matthew  Arnold. 


WITH  JOY  THE  STARS  PERFORM  THEIR  SHINING 
AND  THE  SEA  ITS  LONG,  MOON-SILVERED  ROLL." 

—  Tennyson,  Page  128. 


/IBai?  8.  129 

J^E  thoiL  a?i  example  of  the  believers^  in  word, 
in   conversation^   in   charity^    in   spirit,    in 
faith,  in  purity. — i   Timothy  iv.  12. 

If  vexing  thoughts  within  me  rise, 
And  sore  dismayed  my  spirit  dies, 
Still  He,  who  once  vouchsafed  to  bear 
The  sickening  anguish  of  despair, 
Shall  sv/eetly  soothe,  shall  gently  dry, 
The  throbbing  heart,  the  streaming  eye. 
Sir  Robert  Grant. 

HLWAYS  the  unseen  will  be  more  than 
the  seen  ;  always  the  unknown  will 
encompass  and  interfuse  the  known;  ahvays 
we  must  walk  by  faith  more  than  by  sight. 
The  higher  we  aspire  and  reach,  the  further 
will  the  ideal  recede;  the  purer  and  truer 
we  become,  the  more  commanding  will  be 
our  sense  of  right,  and  the  more  sweet  and 
strong  will  be  the  attractions  of  the  true, 
the  beautiful,  and  the   good. 

Rev.  Charles  G.  Ames. 

With  a  strong  soul,  and  a  noble  aim,  one 
can  do  what  one  wills,  morally  speaking. 

Samuel  Smiles. 


I30  /Bias  9» 

A  LL  things  work  togethet^  for  good  to  them 
that  love  God. — Romans  viii.  28. 

•J* 
Speak  gently  !    'tis  a  little  thing, 

Dropped  in  the  heart's  deep  well; 
The  good,  the  joy,  that  it  may  bring, 
Eternity  shall  tell. 

G.  W.  Langford. 

'Tf'HE  only  way  to  regenerate  the  world  is 
^^  to  do  the  duty  which  lies  nearest  to  us, 
and  not  to  hunt  after  grand,  far-fetched 
ones  for  ourselves. 

Charles  Kingsley. 

As  it  has  been  written  ''Reign  thou  in 
the  midst  of  thine  enemies";  not  he, 
therefore,  hath  peace  whom  none  troubleth; 
this  is  the  peace  of  the  world;  but  he  whom 
all  men  and  all  things  trouble,  yet  who 
beareth  all  these  things  quietly,  with  joy. 

Mrs.  Charles. 

All  are  but  parts  of  one  stupendous  whole, 
Whose  body  Nature  is,  and  God  the  soul. 
Alexander  Pope. 


/Ifta^  10.  131 

T^OR  I  know  the  thoughts  that  I  think  totuard 
yoUj  saith  the  Lord  j  thoughts  of  peace  and 
not  of  evil  J  to  give  to  you  an  expected  end. — 
Jeremiah  xxix.  11. 

Man  is  in  loss  except  he  live  aright, 
And  help  his  fellow  to  be  firm  and  brave, 
Faithful    and    patient  :    then  the   restful 
night. 

Edwin  Arnold. 

♦fMOWI  want  you  to  think  that  in  life 
mmX  troubles  will  come,  which  seem  as  if 
they  never  would  pass  away.  The  night 
and  the  storm  look  as  if  they  would  last 
forever;  but  the  calm  and  the  morning  can- 
not be  stayed ;  the  storm  in  its  very  nature 
is  transient.  The  effort  of  nature,  as  that 
of  the  human  heart,  ever  is  to  return  to  its 
repose,  for  God  is  Peace. 

George  MacDonald. 

One  of  the  highest  of  spiritual  luxuries  is 
the  enjoyment  of  pure  and  exhilarating  and 
sublime  thoughts. 

Theodore  L.  Cuyler. 


132  iHbas  ll» 

T^UT  let  all  those  that  put  their  trust  in  thee 
rejoice;  let  them  ever  shout  for  joy  ^  because 
thou  defendest  them  :  let  them  also  that  love  thy 
name  be  joyful  in  thee. — Psalms  v.  i  i. 

'^T'HE  best  remedy  for  the  dislike  we  feel 
^^  toward  anyone  is  to  endeavor  to  try 
and  do  them  a  little  good  every  day  :  the 
best  cure  for  their  dislike  to  us  is  to  try 
and  speak  kindly  of  them. — Gold  Dust. 
•J" 
There  is  nothing  so  powerful  as  exa7nple. 
We  put  others  straight  by  walking  straight 
ourselves.  Mme.  Swetchine. 

Like  as  the  armed  knight, 

Appointed  to  the  field, 
With  this  world  will  I  fight, 

And  faith  shall  be  my  shield. 
Faith  is  that  weapon  strong 
Which  will  not  fail  at  need. 

Anne  Askew. 
►!- 

Though    youth    and   spring-time  hope  re- 
turn no  more, 
God's  mercies  are  repeated  o'er  and  o'er. 

B.  G.  Mason. 


/Ilba^  12.  ^33 

"POR  the  Lord  giveth  wisdoffi :    oitt  of   his 
mouth  Cometh  knowledge  and  understand- 
ing.— Proverbs  ii.  6. 

ijtfJVERYWHERE  in  creation  there  is  a 
/^^  charm,  the  fountain  of  which  is  in- 
visible. In  the  natural,  the  moral,  and  the 
spiritual  world,  it  is  the  same.  Vv^e  are 
constantly  referring  it  to  causes  which  are 
only  effects.  Faith  alone  reveals  to  us  its 
true  origin. 

Frederick  W.   Faber,  D.  D. 

Pour  forth  thy  fervors  for  a  healthful  mind, 
Obedient  passions,  and  a  will  resigned  : 
For  love,  which   scarce  collective  man  can 

mi ; 

For    patience,     sovereign    o'er    transmuted 

ill  ; 
For  faith  that,  panting  for  a  happier  seat. 
Counts  death  kind  Nature's  signal  of  retreat; 
These   goods  for  man   the  laws  of  Heaven 

ordain, 

With  these  celestial  Wisdom  calms  the  mind, 
And  m.akes  the  happiness  she  does  not  find. 
Samuel  Johnson. 


134  /IRai5  13. 

A    WISE  maft  will  hear,  and  will  increase 
learning ;  and  a    man   of  understanding 
shall  attain  unto  wise  counsels.  — Proverbsi.  5. 


Father  in  heaven,  hear  us  to-day, 
Hallowed  Thy  name  be  ;  hear  us,  we  pray  ! 
Oh,  let  Thy  kingdom  come  ! 
Oh,  let  Thy  will  be  done 
By  all  below  the  sun 

As  in  the  skies. 

Rev.  Charles  G.  Ames. 


^^HE  more  and  the  better  we  know  and 
^^  understand,  the  more  strictly  shall 
we  be  judged  unless  our  lives  are  also  more 
holy.  Thomas  A  Kempis. 

The  largest  and  most  comprehensive 
natures  are  generally  the  most  cheerful,  the 
most  loving,  the  most  hopeful,  the  most 
trustful.  It  is  the  wise  man,  of  large 
vision,  who  is  the  quickest  to  discern  the 
moral  sunshine  gleaming  through  the  dark- 
est cloud.  Samuel  Smiles. 


/nbas  14.  135 

"J^HAT  fhoit  may  est  walk  in  the  way  of  good 
men,  and  keep  the  paths  of  the  righteous. 
— Proverbs  ii.  20. 

The  minutes  have  their  trusts  as  they  go  by, 
To  bear  Thy  love  who  wing'st  their  view- 
less flight; 
To  Thee  they  bear  their  record  as  they  fly, 
And   never   from    their    ceaseless    round 
alight. 
Rich  with  the  life  Thou  liv'st  they  come  to 

me 

Oh!  may  I  all  that  life  to  others  show; 
That  they  from  strife  may  rise  and  rest  in 
Thee, 
And  all   thy  peace  in  Christ   by  me   may 
know. 
Then  shall  the  morning  call  me  from  my  rest. 
With   joyful   hope   that  I   Thy  child  may 
live ; 
And  when  the  evening  comes,  'twill   make 
me  blest 
To  know  that  Thou  wilt  peaceful  slumber 
give; 
Such  as  Thou  dost  to  weary  laborers  send, 
Whose  sleep  from  Thee  doth  with  the  dew 
descend.  Jones  Very. 


136  ilBais  15» 

JJ/HjEN'  wisdom  enteretk  into  t/mie  heart, 
and  knowledge  is  pleasant  unto  thy  soul: 
Discretion   shall  preserve   thee,   understanding 
shall  keep  thee. — Proverbs   ii.  lo-ii. 

•I- 

The  possible  stands  by  us  ever  fresh. 
Fairer    than    aught    which    any    life    hath 
owned.  Jean  Ingelow. 

||VEOPLE  may  talk  about  the  selfishness 
HV  of  humanity  as  much  as  they  like,  I 
never  will  believe  that  it  is  ''everyone  for 
himself,"  unless  we  choose  to  set  the  world 
the  example.  Men  like  the  kindly  look,  the 
bright  smile,  the  warm  clasp  of  the  hand; 
there  is  as  much  truth  as  sentimentality  in 
the  words  of  the  song: 

"  'Tis  love 
That  makes  the  world  go  round." 

Edith  Robinson. 

The  pleasantest  things  in  the  world  are 
pleasant  thoughts,  and  the  great  art  in  life 
is  to  have  as  many  of  them  as  possible. 

Bovel. 


^as  16.  137 

"T^HOU  shalt  enlarge    my   heart. — Psalms 
cxix.  32. 

||VERSONALITY  merely,  in  the  sense 
IIV  of  self-consciousness  and  will,  would 
not  constitute  a  Being  fitted  to  attract  us, 
if  unaccompanied  with  the  attributes  of  a 
distinctively  moral  nature.  Mere  power 
might  awe  and  crush  us,  but  it  could  not 
command  our  love,  or  the  consent  of  our 
moral  nature  to  its  requirements.  But  the 
conception  of  God  revealed  by  Moses  adds, 
forthwith,  all  the  special  characteristics 
which  attract  the  reverence  and  constrain 
the  heart.  C.  Geikie,  D.  D. 


He  comes  the  broken  heart  to  bind, 

The  bleeding  soul  to  cure. 
And  with  the  treasures  of  His  grace 

To  enrich  the  humble  poor. 
Our  glad  Hosannas,  Prince  of  Peace, 

Thy  welcome  shall  proclaim, 
And  heaven's  eternal  arches  sing 

With  Thy  beloved  name. 

Philip   Doddridge. 


138  /liba^  \7. 

T^R    my  yoke   is    easy,    and  my   burden   is 
light. — Matthew  xi.  30. 

Our    many   deeds,    the    thoughts    that   we 

have  thought, 
They  go  out  from  us  thronging  every  hour; 
And  in  them  all  is  folded  up  a  power 
That  on  the  earth  doth  move  them  to  and  fro; 
And    mighty  are    the    marvels    they    have 

wrought 
In   hearts   we   know    not,    and    may    never 

know.  F.    AV.    Faber. 

►^ 

HLTHOUGH  genius  always  commands 
admiration,  character  most  secures 
respect.  The  former  is  more  the  product 
of  brain-power,  the  latter  of  heart-power; 
and  in  the  long  run  it  is  the  heart  that  rules 
in  life.  Men  of  genius  stand  to  society  in 
the  relation  of  its  intellect,  as  men  of 
character  of  its  conscience;  and  while  the 
former  are  admired,  the  latter  are  followed. 

Samuel  Smiles. 
►I- 
Convey    thy   love    to    thy   friend   as   an 
arrow  to  the  mark,  to  stick  it  there;  not  as 
a   ball    against  the    wall    to    rebound   back 
again.  Quarles. 


/IRas  IS.  139 

JyT/ITH  what  Judgment  ye  Judge,  ye  shall  be 
Judged :  and  with  what  measure  ye  mete, 
it  shall  be  measured  to  you  again. — Matthew 
vii.  2. 

A  SAFE  Stronghold  our  God  is  still, 
A  trusty  shield  and  weapon; 

He'll  help  us  clear  from  all  the  ill 
That  hath  us  now  o'ertaken. 

Martin  Luther. 

II^RAY  modestly  as  to  the  things  of  this 
11^  life;  earnestly  for  what  may  be  helps 
to  your  salvation;  intensely  for  salvation 
itself,  that  you  may  ever  behold  God,  love 
God.  Practice  in  life  whatever  you  pray 
for,  and  God  will  give  it  you  more 
abundantly.  E.  B.  Pusey. 

One  is  so  apt  to  think  that  what  works 
smoothest  works  to  the  highest  ends,  hav- 
ing no  patience  for  the  results  of  friction. 

Mrs.  Ewing. 

It  is  the  greatest  of  all  mistakes  to  do 
nothing  because  you  can  only  do  little. 
Do   what  you    can.  Sydney  Smith. 


I40  jflBaiS  19. 

T  ET  not  mercy  and  truth  forsake  thee  :  bind 
them  about  thy  neck:  write  the?n  upon  the 
table  of  thine  heart. — Proverbs  iii.  3. 

-^ 

/f^UR  failures — above  all,  our  noble 
^■^  failures — are  part  and  parcel  of  our 
spiritual  growth.  When  we  go  before  God, 
the  failures  will  go  to  the  great  account; 
they  will  be  elements  in  the  judgment,  as 
instrumental  and  effective  as  any  of  our 
smccesses.  Scott  Holland. 

Lord,  have  mercy  when  we  pray 
Strength  to  seek  a  better  way: 
When  our  wakening  thoughts  begin 
First  to  loathe  their  cherished  sin: 
When  our  weary  spirits  fail. 
And  our  aching  brows  are  pale; 
When  our  tears  bedew  Thy  word, 
Then,  O  then,  have  mercy.  Lord. 

Dean  Milman. 

If  our  doubts  do  not  prevail  so  far  as  to 
make  us  leave  off  praying,  our  prayers  will 
prevail  so  far  as  to  make  us  leave  off 
doubting.  H.  Hickman. 


/Bbag  20.  141 

JJ/ITHOLD  7iot  good  from  the7fi  to  whom 
it  is  due,  when  it  is  in  the  power  of  thine 
hand  to  do  it. — Proverbs  iii.  27. 

Father  in  heaven,  hear  us  to-day; 
Hallowed  Thy  name  be;  hear  us,  we  pray! 
Giver  of  daily  food. 
Fountain  of  truth  and  good, 
Be  all  our  hearts  imbued 

With  love  like  Thine. 

Rev.  Charles  G.  Ames. 


-^T^HE  impulse  of  spiritual  life  produces 
^^  two  results.  First,  it  puts  a  man  in 
the  way  of  self-improvement.  He  begins 
to  expand  and  advance.  Love  works  more 
deeply  in  his  heart  ;  light  shines  more 
clearly  in  his  intelligence ;  new  power  shows 
itself  in  his  will;  he  becomes  more  of  a  m.an 
and  a  better  man — a  higher  order  of  being. 
Next  he  begins  to  do  the  work  of  a  god; 
he  becomes  a  working  cause — a  creator  of 
good;  the  impulse  of  spiritual  life  passes 
from  him  to  others. 

Rev.  Charles  G.  Ames. 


142  /Hbas  21. 

C'A  V  7iot  unto  tJiy  neighbor^    Go,    and  come 
again,  and  to-morrow  I  will  give  ;  when 
thou  hast  it  by  thee. — Proverbs  iii.  28. 

OT  long  before  her  death,  in  writing  to 
a  friend,  Mrs.  Mary  Clemmer  Hudson 
said:  '*  Though  lam  not  old,  I  have  sounded 
the  deeps  and  the  shadov/s  of  all  that  is 
called  society,  till  I  feel  all  through  my 
heart  of  hearts  that  all  that  is  of  real  value 
to  the  lowly  contrite  spirit  is  the  clear 
mind,  the  loving,  consecrated  heart;  all  else 
is  emptiness,  vanity,  vexation  of  soul." 

''Not  to  myself  alone," 
The  circling  Star,  with  honest  pride,  doth 
boast; 
"Not  to  myself  alone  I  rise  and  set: 
I  write  upon  night's  coronal  of  jet 
His  power  and  skill  who  formed  our  myriad 

host; 
A  friendly  beacon  at  heaven's  open  gate, 

I  gem  the  sky. 
That  man  might  ne'er  forget,  in  every  fate, 
His  home  on  high." 

Samuel  Wm.  Partridge. 


J^E  fiot  wise  in  thine  own  eyes  j  fear  the  Lordy 
a?id  depart  from  evil. — Proverbs  iii.  7. 


Words  are  mighty,  words  are  living  : 

Serpents  v^^ith  their  venomous  stings, 
Or  bright  angels  crowding  round  us 

With  heaven's  light  upon  their  wings. 
Every  word  has  its  own  spirit. 

True  or  false,  that  never  dies  ; 
Every  v/ord  man's  lips  have  uttered 

Echoes  in  God's  skies. 

Adelaide  A.   Proctor. 


♦fTT   makes  the   mind   very  free  when   we 
■■    give  up  wishing,  and  only  think  of  bear- 
ing what  is  laid  upon  us,  and  doing  what  is 
given  us  to  do.  George  Eliot. 


It  was  in  such  a  little  thing  as  the  break- 
ing of  bread  that  Christ  revealed  himself. 
Edith  Robinson. 


144  ^as  23. 

QTRIVEnot  with  a  man  without  cause ^  if  he 
have  done  thee  no  harm. — Proverbs  iii.  30. 

Father  in  heaven,  hear  us  to-day  ; 
Hallowed  Thy  name  be  ;  hear  us,  we  pray  ! 
Lead  us  in  paths  of  right, 
Save  us  from  sin  and  blight, 
King  of  all  love  and  might. 
Glorious  for  aye. 

Rev.  Charles  G.  Ames. 
■A, 

^f  OVE  is  divine,  and  then  most  divine 
^^  when  it  loves  according  to  needs,  and 
not  according  to  merit. 

George  MacDonald. 

I  AM  of  the  opinion  that  the  Bible  con- 
tains more  true  sublimity,  more  exquisite 
beauty,  more  pure  morality,  more  important 
history,  and  purer  strains  of  poetry  and 
eloquence  than  can  be  collected  from  all 
other  books,  in  whatever  age  or  language 
they  may  have  been  written. 

Sir  William  Jones. 

Every  man  can  be  a  prophet  and  should 
be.  L.  Clark  Seelye. 


^as  24.  145 

J^OR  whatsoever  is  born  of  God,  overcoineth 

the  world :  and  this  is  the  victory  that  over- 

cometh  the  world,  even  our  faith.  —  i  John  v.  4. 

H  TEMPLE  there  has  been  upon  earthy 
a  spiritual  temple  made  up  of  living 
stones  ;  a  temple  as  I  may  say  composed  of 
souls  ;  a  temple  with  God  for  its  light,  and 
Christ  for  the  High  Priest,  with  wings  of 
angels  for  its  arches,  with  saints  and 
teachers  for  its  pillars,  and  with  worship- 
ers for  its  pavement.  Wherever  there  is 
faith  and  love  this  temple  is. 

J.   H.    Newman. 

The  common  problem,  yours,  mine,  every- 
one's 
Is — not  to  fancy  what  were  fair  in  life. 
Provided  it  could  be — but  finding  first 
What  may  be,  then  find  how  to  make  it  fair 
Up  to  our  means. 

Robert  Browning. 

I  wonder  many  times  that  any  child  of 
God  should  have   a   sad   heart. 

Canon  Farrar. 


146  /flbag  25. 

J-JEAR^   ye   children,    the   instruction    of  a 
father,  a?td  attend  to  know  under sta7iding. 
For  I  give  you  good  doctrine,  forsake  ye  not  my 
law. — Proverbs  iv.  i,  2. 

'Tis  easy  to  be  gentle  when 

Death's  silence  shames  our  clamor, 
And  easy  to  discern  the  best 

Through  memory's  mystic  glamour  ; 
But  wise  it  were  for  thee  and  me, 

Ere  love  is  past  forgiving, 
To  take  the  tender  lesson  home — 

Be  patient  with  the  living. 

Margaret  E.   Sangster. 


'^T'HERE  is  a  sufficient  recompense  in  the 
^^  very  consciousness  of  a  noble  deed. 

Anonymous. 

We  should  deal  with  each  other  as  God 
deals  with  us.  Goethe. 

Let  us  leave  off  concerning  ourselves 
about  what  God  will  do.  .  .  He  will  do  his 
part  ;  let  us  do  ours. 

Rev.  Charles  G.   Ames. 


JJZISZ>OM  IS  tJie  pr-incipal  thing ;  therefore 
get  wisdom:    and  tvith  all  thy  getting  get 
understanding. — Proverbs  iv.  7. 


Jesus,  I  love  Thee — not  because 
I  hope  for  heaven  thereby, 

Nor  yet  because,  if  I  love  not, 
I  must  forever  die. 

I  love  Thee,  Saviour,  dear,  and  still 

I  ever  will  love  Thee, 
Solely  because  my  God  Thou  art, 

Who  first  hast  loved  me. 

Francis  Xavier. 


♦II^OWEVER  good  you  may  be,  you  have 
■■*^  faults;  however  dull  you  may  be,  you 

can  find  out  what  some  of  them  are:  and, 
however  slight  they  may  be,  you  had  better 
make  some  effort  to  get  quit  of  them. 

John  Ruskin. 

Many  a  so-called  follower  of  Christ  fol- 
lows Him  only  to  stone  Him. 

Edith  Robinson. 


148  ^a^  27. 

'T'HE  way  of  the  wicked  is  as  darkness:  they 
know  not  at  what  they  stumble.     My  son^ 
attend  to  viy  words:  incline  thine  ear  unto  my 
sayings. — Proverbs  iv.  19,  20. 

We  may  not  know  indeed 

The  whys,  the  wherefores  of  each  life! 
But  this  we  know — there's  One  who  sees 

And  watches  us  through  joy  or  strife. 
Each  hfe  its  mission  here  fulfills, 

And  only  He  may  know  the  end, 
And  loving  Him  we  may  be  strong, 

Tho'  storm  or  sunshine  He  may  send. 
Bernard  Fontaine. 

CONSECRATION  is  not  wrapping  one's 
self  in  a  holy  web  in  the  sanctuary;  it 
is  going  into  the  world  and  using  every 
power   for   God's   glory. 

H.  W.  Beecher. 

If  any  man  will  come  after  me,  let  him 
deny  himself. — Matthew  xvi.  24. 

The  way  of  the  Lord   is  strength  to  the 
upright. — Proverbs  x.  29. 


^a^  28.  149 

^HAT  ivas  the  true  Light,   which  lighteth 
every  man  that  cometh  into  the  world. — 
John  i.  9. 

"T  is  clear  that  there  are  irreducible  un- 
certainties in  life — things  which  God 
does  not  intend  us  to  know  beforehand; 
and  the  wise  attitude  toward  such  things  is 
not  less  truly  than  beautifully  expressed  in 
the  following  lines: 

**  I  see  not  a  step  before  me, 
As  I  tread  on  another  year, 

But  the  past. is  still  in  God's  keeping, 
The  future  His  mercy  shall  clear, 

And  what  looks  dark  in  the  distance 
May  brighten  as  I  draw  near. 


It  may  be  He  keeps  waiting, 
Till  the  coming  of  my  feet, 

Some  gift  of  such  rare  blessedness. 
Some  joy  so  strangely  sweet, 

That  my  lips  shall  only  tremble 
With  the  thanks  they  cannot  speak. 

Mary  G.  Brainerd. 


ISO  ^as  29. 

T  ET  thine  eyes  look  right  on,  and  let  thine 
eyelids  look  sti'aight  before  thee.      Ponder 
the  path   of  thy  feet,  and  let   all  thy  ways  be 
established. — Proverbs  iv.  25,  26. 


♦||5EAS0N  is  not  the  only  interpreter  of 
■■^  life.  The  fountain  of  action  is  in  the 
feelinsfs.  H.  T.  Tuckerman. 


Judge  not,  because  thou  canst   not  judge 

aright. 
Not  much  thou  know'st  thyself,  yet  better 

far 
Than  thou  know'st  others!     Language  is  at 

war 
With  purposes;  appearances  must  fight. 

Rather  let   Christ's  great  wisdom  be  con- 
fessed, 

Who  taxed   rash  judgment  as  this  world's 
worst  leaven, 

And    the  worst   temper    for  the  courts   of 
heaven. 

Chauncy  Hare  Townshend. 


T^OR  7visdoin  is  better  than  rubies ;  and  all 
the  things  that  may  be  desired  are  not  to  be 
compared  to  it. — Proverbs  viii.  11. 

►J* 
Turn  not   thine  eyes   upon   the  backward 

view; 
Let  us  look  forward  into  sunny  days, 
Welcome  with  joyous  hearts  the  victory. 

Schiller. 

®NE  of  the  most  valuable  and  one  of 
the  most  infectious  examples  which 
can  be  set  before  the  young,  is  that  of 
cheerful  working.  Cheerfulness  gives  elas- 
ticity to  the  spirit,  specters  fly  before  it; 
difficulties  cause  no  despair,  for  they  are 
encountered  with  hope,  and  the  mind  ac- 
quires that  happy  disposition  to  improve 
opportunities  which  rarely  fails  of  success. 

Samuel  Smiles, 

The  glory  I  shall  seek  is  to  know  that 
my  aim  is  infinite,  and  yet  never  pause  in 
my  course.  Schliermacher. 

Try,  then,  to  work  a  little  less  from  the 
outside,  and  a  little  more  from  within. 

Fenelon. 


152  mn^  3l» 

J^REASURES   of  wickedness  profit  noth- 
ing;    but  righteousness    deliver eth    from 
death, — Proverbs  x.  2. 


God  of  the  light  and  viewless  air! 

Where  summer  breezes  sweetly  flow, 
Or,  gathering  in  their  angry  might, 

The  fierce  and  wintry  tempests  blow — 
All — from  the  evening's  plaintive  sigh, 

That  hardly  lifts  the  drooping  flower, 
To  the  wild  whirlwind's  midnight  cry — 

Breathe  forth  the  language  of  thy  power. 

God  of  the  fair  and  open  sky! 

How  gloriously  above  us  springs 
The  tented  dome  of  heavenly  blue 

Suspended  on  the  rainbov/'s  wings! 
Each  brilliant  star  that  sparkles  through. 

Each  gilded  cloud  that  wanders  free, 
In  evening's  purple  radiance,  gives 

The  beauty  of  its  praise  to  thee. 

O.  W.  P.  Peabody. 


■z 


HE  sweetness  of  the  hidden  God  is  the 
delight  of  life. 

Frederick  W.  Faber. 


June  I.  153 

n^HA  T  like  as  Christ  was  raised  from  the 
dead  through  the  glory  of  the  Father^  so 
we   also    might  walk    in     newness   of  life. — 
Romans  vi.  4. 


'F  I  were  bewildered  in  the  mazes  of 
modern  speculation  about  faith,  I 
would  resolve  not  to  be  all  my  life  the 
victim  of  m.ere  intellectual  subtleties,  but 
would  reach  up  and  grasp  the  noblest  and 
fullest  faith  I  can  see,  hold  on  to  it,  live  in 
in  it  and  by  it,  expecting  it  one  day  to  be 
said  of  me,  as  of  another  : 

"  Perplexed  in  faith,  but  pure  in  deeds, 
At  last  he  beat  his  nausic  out." 

I  will  take  God,  Duty,  and  Immortality, 
and  with  my  eyes  on  my  risen  Lord,  I  will 
walk  in  newness  of  life. 

Anonymous. 


To  Him  no  high,  no  low,  no  great,  no  small, 
He  fills,  He  bounds,  connects  and  equals  all. 
Alexander  Pope. 


154  3une  2, 

T  LOVE  them  that  love  7ne :  and  those  that 
seek  me   early  shall  find  me. — Proverbs 
viii.  17. 

Lo !  the  day  of  God  is  breaking; 

Light  is  in  the  sky! 
See  the  world  to  life  awaking: 

Morning  draweth  nigh. 

Rev.  Charles  G.  Ames. 

'^T'HERE  is  always  one  bright  thought  in 
^^  our  minds,  when  all  the  rest  are  dark. 
There  is  one  thought  out  of  which  a  moder- 
ately cheerful  man  can  alwa5''s  make  some 
satisfactory  sunshine,  if  not  a  sufficiency  of 
it.  It  is  the  thought  of  a  bright,  populous 
heaven.  There  is  joy  there  at  least,  if 
there    is   joy    nowhere    else. 

Frederick  W.  Faber,  D.  D. 

Enough  to  feel 
That   God,    indeed,    is   good.     Enough    to 

know, 
Without  the  gloomy  cloud  He  would  reveal 

No  beauteous  bow. 

William  Croswell. 


5une  3.  155 

T-JEAR  instruction^  and  be  wise,   and  refuse 
it  not. — Proverbs  viii.  33. 


AM  very  happy,  solely  because  I  have 
reached  that  upper  ether  of  spiritual 
calm  which  envy,  jealousy,  and  malice  can- 
not reach.  I  do  common  v/ork — plenty  of 
it — but  in  a  spirit  of  consecration  which 
ennobles  it,  at  least  to  me, 

Mrs.  Mary  Clemmer  Hudson. 


Prune  thou  thy  words,   the  thoughts  con- 
trol 

That  o'er  thee  swell  and  throng  ; 
They  will  condense  v/ithin  thy  soul. 

And  change  to  purpose  strong. 
But  he  who  lets  his  feelings  run 

In  soft,  luxurious  flow. 
Shrinks  when  hard  service  must  be  done, 

And  faints  at  every  v/oe. 
Faith's  meanest  deed  more  favor  bears. 

When  hearts  and  wills  are  weighed, 
Than  brightest  transports,  choicest  prayers. 

Which  bloom  their  hour  and  fade. 

John  Henry  Newman. 


156  5uttc  4. 

T^OR  whoso  fiiideth  me  findeth  life.,  and  shall 
obtain   favor    of    the    Lord. — Proverbs 
"'^iii.  35- 


Before  the  hills  in  order  stood, 
Or  earth  received  her  frame. 

From  everlasting  Thou  art  God, 
To  endless  years  the  same. 

Isaac   Watts. 


IJJVERY  human  being  is  intended  to. 
^^  have  a  character  of  his  own,  to  be  what 
no  other  is,  to  do  what  no  other  can. 

W.  E.   Channing. 

The  very  difficulties  of  life,  of  which  we 
are  so  apt  to  complain,  are  converted  into 
the  means  of  that  discipline,  that  self- 
improvement,  which  is  the  great  end  of  life. 
Let  a  man's  present  desires  be  met  and 
satisfied  without  any  exertion  on  his  part, 
and  he  would  be  content  to  remain  as  he 
is.  Progress  is  the  child  of  struggle,  and 
struggle   is   the  child   of  difficulty. 

James  Walker. 


5une  5.  157 

jDLESSEB    is   the    man   that  heareth    vie, 
watching  daily  at  7ny  gates,  Tjaiting  at  the 
posts  of  my  doors. — Proverbs  viii.  34. 

But    he    that  sinneth   against  me  wrongetJi 
his  own  soul. — Proverbs  viii.  2)^. 

The  world  may  change  from  old  to  new, 

From  new  to  old  again  ; 
Yet  hope  and  heaven,  forever  true, 

Within  man's  heart  remain. 
The  dreams  that  bless  the  weary  soul, 

The  struggles  of  the  strong, 
Are  steps  toward  some  happy  goal, 

The  story  of  Hope's  song. 

Sarah  Flower  Adams. 

HN  untiring  sense  of  duty,  an  active  con- 
sciousness of  the  perpetual  presence 
of  Him  who  is  its  author  and  its  law,  and  a 
lofty  aim  beyond  the  grave — these  are  the 
best  and  most  efficient  parts,  in  every  sense, 
of  that  apparatus  wherewith  v/e  should  be 
armed,  v/hen  with  full  purpose  of  heart  we 
address  ourselves  to  the  life-long  work  of 
self-improvement. 

Wm.  Ewart  Gladstone. 


158  5une  6. 

AJOT  that  7ve  are  sufficient  of  ourselves  to 
think  anything  as  of  ourselves  j  but  our 
sufficiency  is  of  God. — 2  Cor.  iii,  5. 

^^HE  circumstances  of  our  daily  life,  the 
^^  difficulties,  the  disappointments,  the 
denials  of  our  lot,  our  state  of  health  or  of 
fortune,  the  faults  or  errors  of  those  Avith 
whom  we  live — these  and  such-like  influ- 
ences pressing  upon  us  form  an  entire 
system  of  discipline,  which  continuously 
acts    upon    us.  T.  T.  Carter. 

»!- 

Alas  !  if  the   principles  of   contentment 
are  not  within  us.  Sterne. 

.  .  .This  outer  world  we  tread  on — as  a 
harp — 
A  gracious  instrument  on  whose  fair  strings 
We  learn  those  airs  we  shall  be  set  to  play 
When  mortal  hours  are  ended. 

Jean  Ingelow. 

It  is  the  man  who  is  the  missionary,  it  is 
not  his  words.    His  character  is  his  message. 
Henry   Drummond. 


5une  7.  159 

"Y^MjE  Lord  will  not  suffer  the  soul  of  the 

righteous  to  fa7nish  j  but  he  casteth  away 

the  substance  of  the  wicked. — Proverbs  x.  3. 


HLL  true  science  begins  in  the  love,  not 
the  dissection  of  your  fellow-creatures: 
and  it  ends  in  the  love,  not  the  analysis,  of 
God.  John  Ruskin. 

The  painter  or  sculptor  who  makes  nature 
and  the  human  form  more  lovable,  and  the 
musician  w^ho  carries  us  out  of  the  reach  of 
care  into  realms  where  the  air  we  breathe 
is  love,  is  a  revealer  to  us  of  the  nature  of 
God.  Canon  Freemantle. 


All   noblest    things    are    religious — not 
temples  and  martyrdoms  only,  but  the  best 
books,  pictures,  poetry,  statues,  and  music. 
Wm.  Mountford. 


Set  your  pride  in  its  proper  place,  and 
never  be  ashamed  of  any  honest  calling. 

Jean  Ingelow. 


i6o  5une  S. 

J^A  TRED  stln-eth  up  strifes;  but  love  cove?^- 
eth  all  sins. — Proverbs  x.  12. 


♦JTF  we've  got  something  to  remember  which 
■■  turned  out  well,  it  heartens  us  up  against 
disappointment  afterward.  And  the  more 
we've  seen  and  known,  the  less  we  decide 
what  is  a  disappointment.  If  a  bird  of  the 
air  carries  away  the  seed  we've  sown,  it  will 
may  be  drop  it  somewhere  else.  I'm  begin- 
ning to  see  these  things  now,  when  it's 
nearly  too  late. 

Edmund  Garrett. 


Hope  leads  the  child  to  plant  the  flov/er. 

The  man  to  sow  the  seed; 
Nor  leaves  fulfillment  to  her  hour, 

But  prompts  again  to  deed. 

Nor  loss  nor  shame,  nor  grief  nor  sin, 

Her  promise  may  gainsay; 
The  voice  Divine  hath  spoke  within. 

And  God  did  ne'er  betray. 

Sarah  Flower  Adams. 


June  9.  i6r 

JJ/ISE  77ieti  lay  up  knowledge  :  but  the  mouth 
of    the    foolish    is    near    destruction. — 
Proverbs  x.  14. 

When  in  His  steps  we  tread 
Who  trod  the  way  of  woe; 
Where  He  is  in  the  heart, 
City  of  God  !  thou  art. 

Francis  T.  Palgrave. 

^T'HE  great  comprehensive  truths  written 
^i^  on  every  page  of  our  history  are  these: 
Human  happiness  has  no  perfect  security 
but  freedom;  freedom  none  but  virtue  ; 
virtue  none  but  knowledge;  and  neither 
freedom  nor  virtue  has  any  vigor  or  im- 
mortal hope  except  in  the  principles  of  the 
Christian  faith,  and  in  the  sanction  of  the 
Christian  religion.  Josiah  Quincy. 

Everywhere  there  is  something  to  learn 
and  to  do,  something  to  be  delighted  with. 

Goethe. 

Be  one  of  the  very  few  who,  a  thing  to  be 
done,  will  not  trust  it  to  the  uncertain  to- 
morrow. Mrs.   Mulock. 


i62  3.une  10. 

^HE  tofigue  of  the  just  is   as  choice  silver- : 
the  heart  of  the  wicked  is  little  worth. — 
Proverbs  x.  20. 


Doth  not  song 
To  the  whole  world  belong  ? 

Is  it  not  given  wherever  tears  can  fall, 
Wherever  hearts  can  melt,  or  blushes  glow, 
Or  mirth  and  sadness  mingle  as  they  flow, 
A  heritage  to  all  ? 

Mrs.  Craig-Knox. 


♦II'T  was  so  then;  it  is  so  now.  I  have  seen 
■■  hard  fighters  among  poor  men  and  rich 
men:  some  on  sick  beds  and  some  in  the 
world,  in  whom  I  am  sure  the  love  of  God 
was  perfecting  itself.  One  longed  to  sit  at 
their  feet  and  learn  wisdom.  But  it  was  the 
wisdom  of  life,  not  the  wisdom  of  letters; 
and  in  life  it  must  be  learned.  They  were 
striving,  according  to  St.  John's  precept,  to 
walk  even  as  Christ  walked;  to  live,  by 
daily  trust  and  daily  self-renunciation,  as 
He  lived. 

F.  D.  Maurice. 


'JTHE  Messing  of  tJie  Lord,  it  maketh  Tick, 
and    he    addeth    no    sorrow    with    it. — 
Proverbs  x.  22. 


XIFE  is  a  search  after  power,  says  Emer- 
son.    But  it  is  a  search  after  that  most 
potent  power,  spiritual  energy. 

Lilian  Whiting. 


No  benefactor  is  equal  to  him  who  peo- 
ples life  with  new  and  loft^^  ideals. 

Goethe. 

►5- 

A  SENSE  of  an  earnest  v;ill 

To  help  the  lowly  living, 
And  a  terrible  heart-thrill, 

If  you  have  no  power  of  giving: 
An  arm  to  aid  the  weak, 

A  friendly  hand  to  the  friendless; 
Kind  words,  so  short  to  speak, 

But  whose  echo  is  endless  : 
The  world  is  wide,  these  things  are  small. 
They  may  be  nothing,  but  they  are  all. 
Lord    Houghton. 


1 64  5une  12. 

n^HE  hope   of  the   i-ighteous  shall  be  glad- 
ness: 
The   way   of  the   Lo?'d   is   strength   to   the 
upright. — Proverbs  x.  28-29. 

EVERYTHING  you  need  to  make  you 
^^  good,  wise,  humble,  lovely,  useful, 
and  happy  is  comprehended  in  the  grace  of 
our  Lord  Jesus  Christ.  Pulsford. 

Only  the  strong  can  be  truly  gentle, 
either  physically,  mentally,  or  morally. 
Nor  is  gentleness  inconsistent  with  boldness 
and  courage;  rather  do  we  expect  to  find 
these  qualities  at  their  best  and  highest 
when  together.  Alexander  Pope. 

•i- 
Why  thus  longing,  thus  forever  sighing 

For  the  far-off,  unattained,  and  dim; 
While  the  beautiful,  all  round  thee  lying, 

Offers  up  its  low,  perpetual  hymn  ? 
Wouldst  thou  listen  to  its  gentle  teaching. 

All  thy  restless  yearning  it  would  still. 
Leaf  and  flower  and  laden  bee  are  preaching 

Thine  own  sphere,  though  humble,  first  to 
fill.  Mrs.   Liszt. 


5une  13.  165 

'T^HE  tnouth  of  the  just  bringeth  forth  wis- 
dom :  but  the  froward  tongue  shall  be  cut 
out. — Proverbs  x.  ^i. 


There  is  no  place  where  earthly  sorrows 
Are  so  felt  as  up  in  heaven; 
There  is  no  place  where  earthly  failings 
Have  such  kindly  judgment  given. 
For  the  love  of  God  is  broader 
Than  the  measure  of  man's  mind, 
And  the  heart  of  the  Eternal 
Is  most  wonderfully  kind. 

F.  W.   Faber,   D  D. 


ID 


IRTUE    is   bold,    and    goodness   never 

fearful.  Shakspeare. 

►5- 


It  is  only  when  we  suffer  ourselves,  that 
we  feel  truly  the  real  nature  of  all  the  high 
qualities  which  are  required  to  bear  suffer- 
ing. Goethe. 

It  is  astonishing  what  a  lot  of  odd 
minutes  one  can  catch  during  the  day,  if 
one  really  sets  about  it. 

Mrs.   Mulock. 


i66  June  14. 

/J   FALSE    bala?ice    is   aboinmation   to    the 
Lord :  but  a  jtist  %veight  is  his  delight.  — 
Proverbs  xi.  i. 


The  thought  that  leads  to  no  action  is  not 

thought;  it  is  dreaming. 
But  all  that  is  beautiful,  all  that  is  bright, 
Shining,   and   glorious   in  Truth's  chrismal 

light, 
The  helpful,  the  hopeful,  the  true,  and  the 

wise. 
The  unselfish  action  that    meets   glad  sur- 
prise, 
All  grand  inspiration  to  nobler  deeds. 
All    effort     and     thought     for     humanity's 

needs, 
All  that  makes  life    worth  the    living    will 

stay, 
These  are  the  deathless,  these  live  on  for 

aye.  Eliza  Lamb  Martyn. 

What  thy  soul  teaches  learn  to  know. 
And  play  out  thine  appointed  part. 
And  thou  shalt  reap  as  thou  shalt  sow. 
Nor  helped  nor  hindered  in  thy  grov/th, 
To  thy  full  stature  thou  shalt  grow. 

Pakenham  Beatty. 


5unc  15.  167 

rpiRST  the  blade,  then  the  ear,    after   that 
the  full  corn  in  the  ear. — Mark  iv.  28. 

Ten  thousand  thousand  precious  gifts 

My  daily  thanks  employ; 
Nor  is  the  least  a  cheerful  heart 

That  tastes  those  gifts  with  joy. 
Through  every  period  of  my  life 

Thy  goodness  I'll  pursue; 
And  after  death,  in  distant  worlds, 

The  glorious  theme  renew. 

Joseph  Addison. 


HRCHIBALD  was  not  the  only  person 
who  sighed  for  a  standpoint,  that  he 
might  move  the  world.  Patience  and  per- 
severance find  the  standpoint. 

Edith  Robinson. 

Recompense  injury  with  justice,  and   re- 
compense kindness  with  kindness. 

Confucius. 

When  we  know  how  to  appreciate  merit 
we  have  the  germ  of  it  within  ourselves. 

Goethe. 


1 68  5une  16. 

TJ/'HEN  pride  cometh,  then  cotneth  shame: 
but  with  the  lowly  is  wisdom. — Proverbs 
xi.  2. 

He  sendeth  sun,  he  sendeth  shower, 
Alike  they're  needful  to  the  flower; 
And  joys  and  tears  alike  are  sent 
To  give  the  soul  fit  nourishment. 
As  comes  to  me,  or  cloud  or  sun, 
Father!  Thy  will,  not  mine,  be  done. 
Sarah  Flower  Adams. 

"T  is  sometimes  said  that  this  world  is 
a  world  only  of  shadows  and  phantoms. 
We  may  safely  reply  that,  whatever  it  is,  a 
world  of  shadows  and  phantoms  it  can  never 
truly  be;  for  by  shadows  and  phantoms,  we 
mean  vague  existences,  which  neither  endure 
nor  act;  .  .  .  With  such  a  description  as 
this,  I  say,  our  human  life,  in  whatever  state 
or  station,  can  never  correspond.  It  may  be 
something  better  than  this;  it  may  be  some- 
thing worse,  but  this  it  can  never  be. 

Wm.  Ewart  Gladstone. 

To  all  the  living  there  is  hope. — Ecclesi- 
astes  ix.  4. 


5une  17.  1^9 

T-JE   that   diligently   seeketh   good  procureth 
favor:    but  he   that  seeketh    mischiefs    it 
shall  come  7into  hiui. — Proverbs  xi.  27. 


Sorrows  humanize  the  race; 
Tears   are   the   showers   that   fertiUze   the 

world ; 
And    memory   of   things    precious  keepeth 

warm 
The  heart  that  once  did  hold  them. 

.   .  .   They  are  poor 
That  have    lost   nothing;  they   are    poorer 

far 
Who,  losing,  have  forgotten;  the  most  poor 
Of  all,  who  lose  and  wish  they  might  forget. 

Jean  Ingelow. 

»^ 

God  reads  the  soul,  and  not  the  face; 

He  hears  the  thoughts,and  not  the  tongue. 
In  H-eaven  the  features  wear  no  grace 

Save  that  v/hich  round  the  spirit  hung; 
And  only  they  are  lovely  seen 
Whose  lives  on  earth  have  noble  been. 

Ernest  Shurtleff. 


I70  5unc  IS. 

n^HERE  is  that  scattereth,  and  yet  increas- 
eth  J   and    there  is  that  withholdeth  more 
than    is    meet,    but    it    tendeth    to  poverty. — 
Proverbs  xi.  24. 

►^ 

HLL  the  events  of  life  are   the  materials 
out  of  which  we  may  make  what  we 

will  NOVALIS. 

It 

Belief  and  trust  in  all  things  good  and 
noble,  and  with  no  hatred  save  for  what  was 
false,  and  base,  and  mean. 

"  Make  Thou  my  spirit  pure  and  clear." 

Mrs.  Ewing. 

The  true  measure  of  time  is  that  which 
makes  each  man's  life  a  day,  his  day.  The 
real  night  is  that  in  which  no  man  can 
work.  Mrs.  Ewing. 

Upraise   thy  heart  and    seek    the    highest 

thought 
Which  can  reflect  itself  in  human  soul. 

J.   L.  Spalding. 

To  love  God  is  to  love  goodness:  that  is, 
to  love  our  highest  and  grandest  thought  of 
goodness.  Alexander  Pope. 


3unc  \9,  171 

J  J /HERE  no  counsel  is,  the  people  fall :  but 
in  the  niuliitude   of  counselors  there   is 
safety. — Proverbs  xi.  14. 

*V 
O  BROODING  spirit  of  Wisdom  and  of  Love, 
Whose     mighty    wings    even    now    o'er- 

shadow  me, 
Absorb  me  in  Thine  own  immensity, 
And  raise  me  far  my  finite  self  above  ! 
Purge  vanity  away,  and  the  weak  care 
That  name  or  fame   of   me   may  widely 

spread  ; 
And  the  deep  v/ish  keep  burning  in  their 
stead, 
Thy  blissful  influence  afar  to  bear, 
Or  see  it  borne  !     Let  no  desire  of  ease, 
No  lack  of  courage,  faith,  or  love,  delay 
Mine    own   steps   on   that   high  thought- 
paven  way 
In  which  my  soul  her  clear  commission  sees: 
Yet  with  an  equal  joy  let  me  behold 
Thy  chariot  o'er  that  way  by  others  rolled. 
Wm.  Rowan  Hamilton. 

XIFE   is  a  journey,  and   death  a  return 
home.     It  is  better  to  suffer  an  injury 
than  to  commit  one. — Chinese  Maxims. 


172  5une  20. 

A  GRACIOUS  ivo7na7i    retaineth   hotiour  ; 
and  strong  inen  retain  riches. — Proverbs 
xi.  i6. 


Time,  like  an  ever-roliing  stream, 

Bears  all  its  sons  away  ; 
They  fly,  forgotten  as  a  dream 

Dies  at  the  opening  day. 

Isaac  Watts. 


||VATIENCE,  humility,  and  utter  for- 
IIV  getfulness  of  self  are  the  true  royal 
qualities.  Thos.  Hughes. 


Doing  nothing  for  others  is  the  undoing 
of  ourself.  We  must  be  purposely  kind 
and  generous,  or  we  miss  the  best  part  of 
existence.  The  heart  that  goes  out  of 
itself  gets  large  and  full.  This  is  the  great 
secret  of  the  inner  life.  We  do  ourselves 
the  most  good  doing  something  for  others. 

Horace  Mann. 


5une  21.  173 

J^E  that  is  void  of  wisdom  despiseth  his  neigh- 
bor;   but  a  7na7i  of  understanding  holdeth 
his  peace. — Proverbs  xi.  12. 


^■tfJACH  of  us  can  take  one  hour  from 
^^  the  twenty-four  to  promote  our 
fondest  wish  or  ambition.  To  what  shall 
the  hour  be  given  ?  The  answer  which 
each  reader  wishes  involuntarily  to  make  to 
this  question,  will  afford  him  a  key  to  his 
own  character  and  the  present  condition  of 

his  mind  and  soul. 

Rev.  T.  Morris. 

Gather  up  and  preserve  the  time, 

Seneca. 

Life  hath  its  Tabor  heights, 

Its  lofty  mounts  of  heavenly  recognition, 

Whose    unveiled    glories    flash    to    earth 

munition 
Of  love  and  truth  and  clear  intuition. 
Sarah  Doudney. 


174  5une  22. 

HTHE  fruit  of  the  righteous  is  a  tree  of  life  j 
and  he  that  winneth  souls  is  wise. — Prov- 
erbs xi.  30. 


Judge  not  the  Lord  by  feeble  sense, 
But  trust  Him  for  His  grace  ; 

Behind  a  frowning  providence 
He  hides  a  smiling  face. 

Wm.  Cowper. 

■wf^NERGY  of  character  has  always  a 
^^^  power  to  evoke  energy  in  others.  It 
acts  through  sympathy,  one  of  the  most 
influential  of  human  agencies.  The  zealous, 
energetic  man  unconsciously  carries  others 
along  with  him.  He  exercises  a  sort  of 
electric  pov/er,  which  sends  a  thrill  through 
every  fiber,  flows  into  the  nature  of  those 
about  him,  and  makes  them  give  out  sparks 
of  fire.  Saml.  Smiles. 

When   we    think    most   for   others,   God 
thinks  most  for  us.  M.  Henry. 

►I- 

Jesus,  as  the  name  of  the  Incarnate  God, 
calls  for  our  love.  Fr.  Hall. 


5une  23.  175 

JN  whom  also  ye  also  are  biiilded  together  for 
an  habitation  of  God  through  the  Spirit. — ■ 
Ephesians  ii.  22. 

'JT^HE  human  soul  is  like  a  bird  born  in  a 
^»  cage.  Nothing  can  deprive  it  of  its 
natural  longings,  or  obliterate  the  mysteri- 
ous remembrance  of  its  heritage. 

Epes  Sargent. 


All  one's  life  is  a  music  if  one  touches 
the  notes  rightly  and  in  tune. 

John  Ruskin. 

•^ 

We  are  builders  of  our  own  characters. 
We  have  different  positions,  spheres,  ca- 
pacities, privileges,  different  work  to  do 
in  the  world,  different  temporal  fabrics  to 
raise;  but  we  are  all  alike  in  this — all  are 
architects  of  fate. 

J.  F.  W.  Ware. 

The  measure  of  life  is  not  length,  but 
honesty.  Lyly. 


176  5une  24. 

'DE  like-minded,  having  the  same  love,  being 
of  one  accord,  of  one  mind. — Philippians 


HND  as  to  hoping,  as  long  as  we're  sure 
our  hopes  is  reunion  the  same  way  as 
the  Lord's,  I  reckon  we  can't  be  too 
hopeful.  Edna  Lyall. 

Let  me  not  deem  that  I  was  made  in  vain, 
Or  that  my  Being  w^s  an  accident. 
Which  Fate,  in  worr  ng  its  sublime  intent, 
Not   wished    to    be,    to    hinder   would    not 

deign. 
Each  drop,  uncounted  in  a  storm  of  rain, 
Hath  its  own  mission,  and  is  duly  sent 
To  its  own  leaf,  or  blade,  not  idly  spent 
'Mid  myriad  dimples  on  the  shipless  main. 
The  very  shadows  of  an  insect's  wing, 
For   which    the   violet    cared   not  while   it 

stayed, 
Yet  felt  the  lighter  for  its  vanishing, 
Proved   that    the    sun    was    shining   by    its 

shade: 
Then  can  a  drop  of  the  eternal  spring. 
Shadow  of  living  lights,  in  vain  be  made  ? 

John  Keats. 


5unc  25.  177 

T/jyiTH  whotn   is  ?io    variableness,    neither 
shadow  of  turning.  — J  a  m  e s  i .  17. 

**  Lord  !  how  in  darkness  can  I  see  aright  ?  '* 
Child  !  all  the  universe  I  fill  with  light; 
Be  true  within,  and  truth  shall  cleanse  thy 
sight. 

More   than   all    speech    the    Silent    Order 

saith; 
All  laws  of  life  are  articles  of  faith; 
Who   loves  and  seeks  for  good,  behold  he 

prayeth.         Charles  Gordon  Ames. 

♦ITN  the  return  of  benefits  let  us  be  ready 
■I  and  cheerful,  but  not  pressing.  There 
is  as  much  greatness  of  mind  in  the  owing 
of  a  good  turn  as  in  the  doing  of  it. 

Seneca. 

Kind  listening  leads  to  kind  speak- 
ing. .  .  The  occasions  for  kind  actions 
are  manifold.  No  one  passes  a  day  without 
meeting  with  these  fortunate  opportunities. 
They  grow  around  us  even  while  we  lie  on 
a  bed  of  sickness,  and  the  helpless  are  rich 
in  a  power  of  kindness  toward  the  helpful. 

F.  W.  Faber. 


17^  June  26. 

T^ECEIT  is  ill  the  heart  of  them  that  imagine 
evil :    but  to    the   counselors   of  peace   is 
joy. — Proverbs  xii.  20. 

mNLESS  a  variety  of  opinions  are  laid 
before  us,  we  have  no  opportunity  of 
selection;  the  purity  of  gold  cannot  be 
ascertained  by  a  single  specimen. 

Herodotus. 

►J- 

All  true  work  is  sacred;  in  all  true  work, 
were  it  but  true  hand  labor,  there  is  some- 
thing of  divineness. 

Thomas  Carlyle. 


If  words  of  thine  have  cheered  one  failing 
heart, 
Kindled  anew  one  fading  altar  fire. 
Thy    work    is    not    a    failure;     chords    are 
touched 
That  shall  re-echo  from  the  angel  choir. 
Mrs.  H.  F.  Thomas. 

The  vital  power  of  good  example  lives  on 
from  generation  to  generation,  keeping  the 
world  ever  fresh  and  young. 

Samuel  Smiles. 


June  27.  179 

JDIGHTEOUSNESS  keepeth    him   that  is 
tipright  ill  the  ivay. — Proverbs  xiii.  6. 

Only  by  pride  cometh  contention  :  hut  with 
the  well-advised  is  wisdom.  — Proverbs  xiii.  i  o. 

4- 
When  my  ill-schooled  spirit  is  aflame 
Some  nobler,  ampler  stage  of  life  to  win, 
I'll  stop  and   say,  ''There  were   no  succor 

here  ! 
The  aids  to  nobler  life  are  all  within." 

Matthev/  Arnold. 

ME  reap  what  we  sow,  but  Nature  has 
love  over  and  above  that  justice,  and 
gives  us  shadow  and  blossom  and  fruit  that 
spring  from  no  planting  of  ours. 

George  Eliot. 

"Let  patience  have  her  perfect  work," 
and  bring  forth  celestial  fruits.  Trust  to 
God  to  weave  your  little  thread  into  a  web, 
though  the  pattern  show  not  yet, 

George  MacDonald. 

Man's  strength  is  not  in  himself. 

C.  Capen. 


i8o  5unc  28. 

I^LESSE£>  are  the  pure  in  Jieart^  for  they 
shall  see  God. — Matthew  v.  8. 


yf^UR  soul  is  unlovely  by  reason  of  in- 
Vi^  iquity  :  by  loving  God  it  becomes 
lovely.  St.  Augustine. 

All  the  sweet  sympathy,  secretly  shown, 

All  the  charity,  hidden,  unknown, 

All  the  compassion  that  lit  the  dark  way. 

All  the  pity  for  those  gone  astray. 

All  of  the  love,  that  divine  password  given, 

Admitting    the     earth-weary     pilgrims     to 

heaven. 
O  blessed   Love  !    how    thy    bright   chalice 

glows. 
Refilled  till  the  cup  with  the  red  wine  o'er- 

flows. 
O    purest    Love  !    the    great    conqueror    of 

death. 
Nothing  can  live  without  thy  holy  breath. 
O  all-potent  Love  !  who  comprehends 
Thy  infinite  issues  and  thy  divine  ends  ? 
Lcve  !  that  makes  deathless  our  grandest 

ideal, 
All  else  fade  and  vanish,  thou  only  art  real. 
Eliza  Lamb  Martyn. 


3mc  29.  i8i 

yj  SOFT  ansiver  iurneth  away  wrath. 

The  tongue  of  the   wise  useth  kriowledge 
aright. — Proverbs  xv.  1-2. 

How   firm   a   foundation,    ye    saints   of  the 
Lord, 

Is  laid  for  your  faith  in  His  excellent  word  ! 

What  more  can  He  say  than  to  you  He  hath 
said, 

You  who  unto  Jesus  for  refuge  have  fled : 

"  Fear  not,  I  am  with  thee;  Oh,  be  not  dis- 
mayed. 

For  I  am  thy  God,  and  will  give  thee  aid." 

George  Keith. 

MARM  breezes  stole  in  at  the  open 
windows  ;  the  scent  of  v/iid  flov/ers 
borne  upon  the  wind  from  the  ravines  and 
hills  mingled  with  the  breath  of  evening  ; 
Nature  lay  calm  and  sympathetic;  radiance, 
peace,  and  love  pervaded  the  world  ;  the 
sunlight  touches  each  object  with  a  soft 
caress;  and  one  feels  in  every  pore  of  his 
being  the  harmony  that  springs  from  the 
profound  tenderness  of  inanimate  things. 
''And  God  ruleth  with  love." 

Victor  Hugo. 


i82  5unc  30. 

n^HE  eyes  of  the  Lord  are  in  every  place,  be- 
holding the  evil  and  the  good.  — Proverbs 
XV.   3. 

Oh,  that  I  were  the  great  soul  of  a  world  ! 

A  glory  in  space  ! 
By  the  glad  hand  of  Omnipotence  hurled 

Sublime  on  its  race  ! 
Reflecting  the  marvelous  beauty  of  heaven, 

Encircled  with  joy; 
To  endure  when  the  orbs  shall  wax  dim  that 
are  given 

Old  Time  to  destroy  ! 

Oh,  that  I  were  this  magnificent  spirit ! 

Embodied  to  prove 
The  measureless    bliss    they  were   sure   to 
inherit. 

Who  lived  in  my  love: 
With  elements  infinite  fitted  for  taking 

All  forms  of  my  will — 
To  give  me  forever  the  rapture  of  making 

More  happiness  still  ! 

William  Kennedy. 

The  glory  is  not  in  the  task,  but  in  the 
doing  it  for  God.  Jean  Ingelow, 


5ul8  1,  183 

V^LESSED  are  the  poor  in  spirit :  for  their  s 
is    the   kingdom   of    heave?!, — Matthew 


4pRM  must  be  the  will,  patient  the  heart, 
Jl  passionate  the  aspiration,  to  secure  the 
fulfilment  of  some  high  and  lonely  purpose, 
when  reverie  spreads  always  its  bed  of  roses 
on  the  one  side,  and  practical  work  sum- 
mons to  its  treadmill  on  the  other. 

Samuel  Smiles. 

►^ 

Accident  does  very  little  toward  the 
production  of  any  great  result  in  life. 
Though  sometimes  what  is  called  ''a  happy 
hit"  may  be  made  by  a  bold  venture,  the 
common  highway  of  steady  industry  and 
application  is  the  only  safe  road  to  travel. 

Samuel  Smiles. 

The  sublimity  of  wisdom  is  to  do  those 
things  living  which  are  to  be  desired  when 
dying.  Bishop  Taylor. 

As  every  thread  of  gold  is  valuable,  so 
is  every  moment  of  time. 

Canon  Farrar. 


1^4  5uli2  2. 

JJ/I  THOU  T  faith  it  is  impossible  to  please 
him. — Hebrews  xi.  6. 


^JfClENCE  tells  us  there  has  been  a 
«^  survival  of  the  fittest.  Doubtless  this 
is  so.  So  in  the  future  there  will  be  a  sur- 
vival of  the  fittest.  What  is  it  ?  Wisdom, 
gentleness,  meekness,  brotherly  kindness, 
charity.  Over  those  v/ho  have  these  traits, 
death  hath  aq>  permanent  power. 

Bishop  Warren. 

To  dare  is  great.     To  bear  is  greater. 
Bravery  we  share  with  the  brutes:  Forti- 
tude with  saints.  C.  F.  Deems. 

His  be  the  praise  who,  looking  down  with 

scorn 
On  the  false  judgment  of  the  partial  herd. 
Consults  his  own  clear   heart,    and  boldly 

dares 
To  be,  not  to  be  thought,  an  honest  man. 

Philemon. 

If  we  were  filled  with  the  spirit  of  real 
Christian  truth,  we  should  hesitate  before 
giving  expression  to  the  glib  judgment. 

Rev.  E.  W.  Donald. 


5uls  3.  185 

jOLESSED  are  the  peace-makers  :  for  they 
shall    be    called   the   children   of   God. — 
Matthew  v.  9. 

Rise,  my  soul,  and  stretch  thy  wings, 

Thy  better  portion  trace: 
Rise  from  transitory  things 

Tow^ard  heaven,  thy  native  place; 
Sun  and  moon  and  stars  decay; 

Time  shall  soon  this  earth  remove: 
Rise,  my  soul,  and  haste  away 

To  seats  prepared  above. 

Robert  Seagrave. 

''J^HE  morning  is  the  gate  of  the  day,  and 
Vi/  should  be  guarded  with  prayer. 

Fair  is  that  lone  star  which  smiles 
though  the  rifts  of  the  thunder-clouds; 
bright  is  the  oasis  which  blooms  in  the 
wilderness  of  sand;  so  fair  and  so  bright  is 
love  in  the  midst  of  wrath. 

Great  hearts  can  only  be  made  by  great 
troubles.  Rev.   C.   H.   Spurgeon. 

The  useless  mien  are  those  who  never 
change  with  the  years.  J.  M.  Barrie. 


1 86  3ul5  4. 

A   MERR  V  heart  makeih  a  cheerful  count- 
enance. — Proverbs  xv.  13. 

♦Jf  F  you  have  built  castles  in  the  air,  your 
II  work  need  not  be  lost:  that  is  where 
they  should  be  :  now  put  foundations  under 
them.  Thoreau. 

If  we  be  honest  with  ourselves, 
We  shall  be  honest  with  each  other. 

Geo.   MacDonald. 

Every  rose  is  an  autograph  from  the 
hand  of  the  Almighty  God.  On  this  world 
about  us  He  has  inscribed  His  thought,  in 
those  marvelous  hieroglyphs  which  sense 
and  science  have  been  these  many  thou- 
sand years  seeking  to  understand.  The 
universe  itself  is  a  great  autograph  of  the 
Almighty.  Theodore  Parker. 


Oh,  that  we  could  always  think  of  God  as 
we  do  of  a  friend,  as  of  one  who  unfeign- 
edly  loves  us,  even  more  than  we  do  our- 
selves! Richard  Baxter. 


5ulB  5,  187 

UETTER  is  little  with  the  fear  of  the  Lord, 
than  great  treasure,  and  trouble  thereivith. 
— Proverbs  xv.  16. 

In  having  all   things,  and    not  Thee,  what 
have  I  ? 
Not    having  Thee,  what  have  my  labors 
got? 
Let     me    enjoy    but    Thee,    what     further 
crave  I ? 
And  having  Thee  alone,  what  have  I  not  ? 
Francis  Quarles, 


♦fT  WILL  govern  my  life,  and  my  thoughts, 
■I   as  if  the  whole  world  were   to  see  the 
one,  and  to  read  the  other.  Seneca. 


Those  who  have  the  most  of  it  [happi- 
ness] think  the  least  about  it.  But  in 
thinking  about  and  in  doing  their  duty 
happiness  comes — because  the  heart  and 
mind  are  occupied  with  earnest  thought 
that  touches  at  a  thousand  points  the  beau- 
tiful and  sublime  realities  of  the  universe. 

Thackeray. 


1 88  5ul2  6. 

A  AT  AN  hath   joy  by   the    answer   of    his 
mouth  :  a?id  a   word  spoke7i   in  due  sea- 
son^ how  good  is  it. — Proverbs  xv.  23. 

-i- 
OuR    many  deeds,  the    thoughts    that    we 

have  thought — 
They  go  out  from  us  thronging  every  hour  ; 
And  in  them  all  is  folded  up  a  power 
That  on  the  earth  doth  move  them  to  and  fro. 
And    mighty   are    the    marvels    they   have 

wrought 
In   hearts  we    know    not,   and    may    never 

know.  F.  W.  Faber, 

HFATE  rules    the  words  of   wise   men 
which    makes  their  words  truer,   and 
worth  more  than  the  men  themselves  know. 

John  Ruskin. 

Our  life  is  always  deeper  than  v/e  know, 
it  is  always  more  divine  than  it  seems,  and 
hence  we  are  able  to  survive  degradations 
and  despairs  which  otherwise  must  have  en- 
gulfed us.  Henry  James. 

It  is  greatness  of  soul  alone  that  never 
grows  old.  Pericles. 


'l^HE  light  of  the  eyes  7'ejoiceth  the  heart : 

The   ear  that  heareth   the   reproof  of  life 
abideth  among  the  wise.  • 


There'll    come  a    time    near    the  setting 
sun, 
When  the  joys  of  life  seem  few; 
A  rift  will  break  in  the  evening  dun, 
And  the  golden  light  stream  through. 
MiNOT  J.  Savage. 


jpROM  that  Cross  on  Calvary  has  streamed 
JJ  a  light  that  has  illumined  all  the  world. 
Not  one  of  all  the  sons  of  all  the  centuries 
that  lie  between  but  has  felt  the  inspiration 
and  the  influence  of  that  wonderful  death- 
scene.  Scoffer  or  saint,  doubter  or  disciple — 
not  one  but  has  been  touched  and  strength- 
ened by  the  real  story  of  the  Cross.  Priestly 
inventions  and  infidel  ''realisms"  have 
never  been  able  to  weaken  its  grandeur  or 
minimize  its  potency.  It  was  the  simplest 
yet  the  grandest  of  all  the  world's  historic 
happenings — the  giving  that  was  gaining. 
Elbridge  S.  Brooks. 


I90  5ull2  8. 

/^OMAIIT  thy  luorks  unto  the  Lord^  a?id  thy 
thoughts  shall  be  established. — Proverbs 
xvi.  3. 

mINDNESS  has  converted  more  sin- 
ners than  either  zeal,  eloquence,  or 
learning  ;  and  these  three  never  converted 
anyone  unless  they  were  kind  also.  The 
continual  sense  which  a  kind  heart  has  of 
its  own  need  of  kindness  keeps  it  humble. 

J.  J.  Murray. 

All  the  vexations  and  sorrov/  and  strife, 

All  of  the  mystery  enwreathing  a  life, 

The  duties  we   shrank  from  in   terror   and 

tears. 
The  shadowy  phantoms,  precursors  of  fears. 
The  hard  obligations  we  fain  would  let  go. 
And  all  the  possessions  that  burden  us  so, 
The   falsehoods  and  follies  and   useless  re- 
grets,— 
The  fragments  and  frailties  that  weakness 

begets 
These  will  perish,  these  will  decay, 
These,  evanescent,  will  vanish  away. 

Anonymous. 


3m  9.  191 

r  ET your  light  so  shine  before  men^  that  they 

may  see  your  good  7aorks^  and  glorify  your 

Father  which  is  in  heaven. — Matthew  v.  16. 

Blest  is  the  tranquil  hour  of  morn, 

And  biest  the  hour  of  solemn  eve, 

When,  on  the  wings  of  prayer  upborne, 

The  world  I  leave. 

C.  Eliot. 

/T^OD  is    ever  drawing  like    toward   like, 
^*^  and  making  them  acquainted. 

Ibid. 

Certain  defects  are  necessary  for  the 
existence  of  individuality.  We  should  not 
be  pleased  if  old  friends  were  to  lay  aside 
certain  peculiarities.  Goethe. 

Mere  nature  may  deteriorate.  The  en- 
dowments of  force  must  spend  themselves. 
Wound-up  watches  and  worlds  must  run 
down.  But  nature  sustained  by  unexpendi- 
ble  forces  must  abide.  Nature  filled  with 
unexpendible  forces  continues  in  form. 
Nature   impelled  by  a  magnificent  push   of 

life,  must  ever  rise. 

Bishop  Warren. 


192  5ul^  10» 

"DETTER  is  a  little  7m th  righteousness,  thafz 

great  revenues  without  right. — Proverbs 

xvi.  8. 

•!- 

When  peace  has  departed  the  care-stricken 

breast, 
And  the  feet  of  the  weary  one  languish  for 

rest; 
When  the  world  is  a  wide-spreading  ocean 

of  grief, 
How  blest  the  return  the  bird  and  the  leaf; 
Reliance  on  God  is  the  dove  to  our  ark, 
And  peace  is  the  olive  she  plucks  in  the  dark. 
Charles  Mackay. 
4- 
/f%H,  the  depth  and  tenderness!     Oh,  the 
^^  divine    eternity    of    a    mother's    love! 
The  same  in  the  wilds  of  savagery  as  in  the 
homes  of  culture;  as  supreme  in  the  Pales- 
tine,   the  Rome,   the   Egypt   of  an   ancient 
time  as  in  the  modern  cities  of  these  latter 
days  .  .   .   and  the    English    poet  has    but 
voiced  the  faith  of  all  sorts  and  conditions 
of  men  when  he  sings: 

"  A  mother  is  a  mother  still, 
The  holiest  thing  alive" 

Elbridge  S.  Brooks. 


5ul^  ll«  1 93 

T^O  W  much  better  is  it  to  get  wisdom  than 
gold 2 — Proverbs  xvi.  i6. 


MHAT  fairy  palaces  we  may  build  of 
beautiful  thoughts — proof  against 
all  adversity  —  bright  fancies,  satisfied 
memories,  noble  histories,  faithful  say- 
ings; treasure-houses  of  precious  and  rest- 
ful thoughts,  which  care  cannot  disturb, 
nor  pain  make  gloomy,  nor  poverty  take 
away  from  us — houses,  built  without  hands, 

for  our  souls  to  live  in. 

John  Ruskin. 


There's  never  an  always  cloudless  sky, 

There's  never  a  vale  so  fair. 
But  over  it  sometimes  shadows  lie 

In  a  chill  and  songless  air. 

But  never  a  cloud  o'erhung  the  day. 

And  flung  its  shadows  down. 
But  on  its  heaven-side  gleamed  some  ray, 

Forming  a  sunshine  crown. 

MiNOT  J.  Savage. 


194  5ulK)  12. 

T-JE  that  handleth  a  matter  wisely  shall  find 
good. — Proverbs  xvi.  20. 

H  COMMANDING  love  has  made  a 
homely  face  beautiful  with  aspiration 
and  self-sacrifice.  What  may  we  not  expect 
when  the  spirit  of  God,  without  measure, 
breaks  through  a  physical  nature  molded  to 
the  perfection  of  grace  and  harmony  ? 

S.  S.  Helker. 

Walk    with    the    Beautiful    and    with    the 
Grand, 
Let  nothing  on  the  earth  thy  feet  deter; 
Sorrow    may   lead   thee,    weeping,    by    the 
hand, 
But  give  not  all  thy   bosom  thoughts  to 
her; 

Walk  with  the  Beautiful. 

I  hear  thee   say,    '' The  Beautiful!  what  is 
it?" 
Oh,  thou  art  darkly  ignorant!  be  sure 
*Tis  no  long  weary  road  its  form  to  visit, 
For  thou  canst  make  it  smile  beside  thy 
door  ; 

Then  love  the  Beautiful. 

E.    H.    BURRINGTON. 


3ulB  13.  195 

pLEASANT  words  are  as  an  honey -comb  ^ 
siveet  to  the  soul,  and  health  to  the  bones.  — 
Proverbs  xvi.  24. 


♦IfT  is  not  always  the  depth  or  the  novelty 

II  of  a  thought  which  constitutes  its  value 
to  ourselves,  but  the  fitness  of  its  applica- 
tion to  our  circumstances. 

Sewell. 

The  earnestness  of  life  is  the  only  pass- 
port to  the  satisfaction  of  life. 

Theodore  Parker. 


Since  the  ''  sting  of  death  is  sin," 
Make  us.  Lord,  so  pure  within 

That  the  grave  may  be 
Only  a  sweet  couch  of  rest. 
Where,  beneath  earth's  sheltering  breast, 

We  shall  wait  for  Thee. 

E.    M.  COMSTOCK. 


Life  is  a  quarry,  out  of  which  we  are  to 
mold  and  chisel  and  complete  a  character. 

Goethe. 


196  5uli2  14. 

"T^HE  heart  of  the  wise  teacheth  his  mouthy 
and  addeth  learning  to  his  lips. — Proverbs 
xvi.  23. 

Comes  a  day  will  bring   its  own  sufficient 
store, 

When,  forgetting  how  to  borrow, 
I,  from  God,  shall  be  a  giver  evermore; 

To-morrow,  dear,  to-morrov/. 

After  one  delicious  trance  is  overslept, 

I  shall  wake,  forgetting  sorrow  ; 
I  shall   smile  to  think  how  weakly  once  I 
wept ; 
To-morrow,  yes,  to-morrow. 

Charles  Gordon  Ames. 


'JT^HERE  good  works  do  follow  them: 
VU  either  their  own  good  works  and  words 
which  outlive  themselves,  or  those  which 
they  have  inspired  in  their  successors  and 
survivors.  The  vision  of  a  noble  character, 
the  glimpse  of  a  new  kind  of  virtue  does 
not  perish  .  .  .  this  keeps  alive  in  us  the 
ideal  of  human  nature  and  the  essence  of 
the  Divine  nature. 

Dean  Stanley. 


5ulB  15.  197 

ID  UT  we  all,  with  unveiled  face,  reflecting  as 
a  mirror  the  glory  of  the  Lord,  are  trans- 
for77ied  into  the  same  image  from  glory  to  glory  y 
even  as  from  the  Lord   the  Spirit. — 2   Cor- 
inthians iii.  18  {Revised  Version). 


Sweet  is  the  work,  my  God,  my  King, 
To  praise  Thy  name,  give  thanks,  and  sing; 
To  show  Thy  love  by  morning  light, 
And  talk  of  all  Thy  truth  at  night. 

Isaac  Watts. 

®UR  life  may  be  food  to  us,  or  may,  if 
we  will  have  it  so,  be  poison  ;  but  one 
or  the  other  it  must  be.  Whichever  and 
whatever  it  is,  beyond  all  doubt  it  is  emi- 
nently real.  So  merely  as  the  day  and  the 
night  alternately  follow  one  another,  does 
every  day  when  it  yields  to  darkness,  and 
every  night  when  it  passes  into  dawn,  bear 
with  it  its  own  tale  of  the  results  which  it 
has  silently  wrought  upon  each  of  us,  for 
evil  or  for  good.  The  day  of  diligence, 
duty,  and  devotion  leaves  it  richer  than  it 
found  us;  richer  sometimes,  and  even  com- 
monly, in  our  circumstances ;  richer  always  in 
ourselves.  Wm.  Ewart  Gladstone. 


19^  5ulv  16. 

T^ETTER  is  a  dry  morsel.,  and  quietness  there- 
with^ than  a  house  full  of  sacrifices  with 
strife. — Proverbs  xvii.  i. 


/Jf  OMEONE  has  said  that  ours  is  an  age 
<^  when  everyone  wants  to  reform  the 
world,  but  no  one  thinks  of  reforming  him- 
self. We  must  begin  with  ourselves.  .  . 
Life  for  God  in  public  is  a  mere  sounding 
brass  and  tinkling  cymbal  unless  it  is 
balanced  by  life  with  God  in  secret. 

Rev.  James  Stalker,  D.  D. 


The  soul  of  man  is  larger  than  the  sky; 
Deeper  than  ocean,  or  the  abysmal  dark 
Of  the  unfathomed  center.     Like  that  Ark, 
Which  in  its  sacred  hold  uplifted  high. 
O'er  the  drowned  hills,  the  human  family, 
And  stock  reserved  of  every  living  kind, 
So,  in  the  compass  of  a  single  mind. 
The  seeds  and   pregnant  forms  in  essence 

lie, 
That  makes  all  worlds. 

Hartley  Coleridge. 


5ul^  17.  199 

J/f/JIOSO  rewardeth  evil  for  good,  evil  shall 
not  depart  f7-om  his  house.     A  fi'iendloveth 
at  all  times,  and  a  brother  is  born  for  adversity.  — 
Proverbs  xvii.  13-17. 

mo  one  leads  so  calm  a  life  as  he  who 
thinks  but  little  of  himself. 

St.  Augustine. 

My  bark  is  wafted  to  the  strand 

By  breath  divine; 
And  on  the  helm  there  rests  a  hand. 

Other  than  mine. 

One  who  has  known  in  storms  to  sail 

I  have  on  board; 
Above  the  raving  of  the  gale 

I  hear  my  Lord. 

Dean  of  Canterbury. 

Prayer  is  the  peace  of  our  spirit,  the 
stillness  of  our  thought,  the  evenness  of  our 
recollection,  the  seat  of  meditation,  the  rest 
of  our  cares,  and  the  calm  of  our  tempest; 
prayer  is  the  issue  of  a  quiet  mind,  of 
untroubled  thoughts;  it  is  the  daughter  of 
charity,  and  the  sister  of  meekness. 

Jeremy  Taylor. 


200  5ull2  18, 

JJ/ISDOM  is  before  hi7n  that  hath  undej-- 
standing. — Proverbs  xvii.  24. 

'^^HREE  things  which  a  man  ought  to 
Vt'  do  with  his  heart:  to  feel  it,  to  teach 
it,  and  to  fear  it.   .   . 

Three  godhke  quaUties  in  man:  patient 
endurance,  sincere  and  disinterested  love, 
and  renumeration  of  that  which  is  temporal. 

Love  is  the  happy  privilege  of  the  mind — 
Love  is  the  reason  of  all  living  things. 
A  Trinity  there  seems  of  principles, 
Which  represent  and  rule  created  life — 
The  love  of  self,  our  fellows,  and  our  God. 
In  all  throughout  one  common  feeling  reigns : 
Each  doth  maintain,  and  is  maintained  by 

the  other: 
All  are  compatible — all  needful;  one 
To  life, — to  virtue  one, — and  one  to  bliss: 
Which  thus  together  make  the  power,  the 

end. 
And  the  perfection  of  created  Being: 
From  these  three  principles  comes   every 

deed. 
Desire,  and  will,  and  reasoning,  good  or  bad. 
Philip  James  Bailey. 


5ulv  19»  20I 

A   MERRY  heart  doeth  good  like  a  medi- 
cine. — Proverbs  xvii.  22. 

Are  there  not  aspirations  in  each  heart 

After  a  better,  brighter  world  than  this  ? 
Longings  for  beings  nobler  in  each  part — 
Things  more  exalted — steeped  in  deeper 
bliss  ? 
Who  gave  us  these  ?  what  are  they  ?     Soul, 
in  thee 
The  bud  is  budding  now  for  immortality! 
Robert  Nicoll. 

fN  seeing  the  life  of  Jesus,  men  have  felt  the 
silent  rebuke  upon  their  own  low  lives. 
In  the  admiration  which  has  deepened 
into  love,  they  have  recognized  the  pres- 
ence of  unsuspected  ideals  and  become  con- 
scious of  a  power  to  realize  them.  Forget- 
ful of  themselves,  they  have  followed  that 
life  along  its  path  of  beauty  and  power,  and 
seen  it  end  in  a  death  which  revealed  at 
once  not  only  the  vanity  but  the  horror  of 
sin,  and  yet  shov/ed  that  neither  sin  nor 
death  can  separate  God's  child  from  his  love 
and  care.         Rev.  Leighton  Parks, 

(His  Star  in  the  East.)     \ 


202  5ulg  20. 

n^HE  words  of  a    maii s    mouth  are  as  deep 
zvaters,  and  the  well-spi'iug  of  wisdom  as  a 
flowing  brook, — Proverbs  xviii.  4. 

►I* 
Sometimes  I  catch  sv/eet  glimpses  of  His 
face, 

But  that  is  all. 
Sometimes  He  looks  on  me  and   seems  to 
smile, 

But  that  is  all. 
Sometimes  He   speaks  a  passing  word    of 
peace, 

But  that  is  all. 
Sometimes  I  think  I  hear  His  loving  voice 
Upon  me  call. 

Nay,    do    not    wrong   Him   by    thy  heavy 
thoughts, 

But  love  His  love! 
Do  thou  full  justice  to  His  tenderness, 

His  mercy  prove: 
Take  Him  for  what  He  is;  Oh,  take  Him  all 

And  look  above. 

H.   BONAR. 

j|^RET  not  over  your  heavy  troubles,  for 
Jl    they  are  the  heralds  of  weighty  mercies. 
Rev.  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


5uls  2U  203 

n^HE  heart  of  the  prudent  getteth  knowledge. 
— Proverbs  xviii.  15. 


XOVE,  unselfish  love,  is  there  spoken 
of  [New  Testament]  again  and  again 
as  the  fundamental  essence  of  the  highest 
life  of  God;  and  it  is  also  evident  on 
the  face  of  the  Gospels  that  it  is  the 
fundamental  motive  and  characteristic  of 
the  life  and  death  of  Christ.  It  is  this  love 
stronger  than  death,  this  love  willing  to 
spend  itself  for  others,  that  is  the  blood  of 
the  life  in  which  God  is  well  pleased. 

Dean  Stanley. 


For  God,  being  love,  in  love  created  all, 
As  he  contains  the  whole  and  penetrates. 
Seraphs  love  God,  and  angels  love  the  good: 
We  love  each  other;  and  these  lower  lives. 
Which  walk  the  earth   in   thousand   divers 

shapes. 
According  to  their  reason,  love  us  too: 
The  most  intelligent  affect  us  most. 
Nay,  man's  chief  wisdom's  love — the  love  of 

God.  Philip  James  Bailey. 


204  JUlS  22» 

A  MAN' that  hath  ff-iejids  must  shoiu  hwiself 
"*"  friendly  ;  and  thej'e  is  a  friend  that  sticketh 
closer  than  a  brother. — Proverbs  xviii.  24. 


How  purely  true,  how  deeply  warm, 

The  inly  breathed  appeal  may  be, 
Though  adoration  wears  no  form, 

In  upraised  hand  or  bended  knee  ! 
One  spirit  fills  all  boundless  space. 

No  limit  to  the  when  or  where  ; 
And  little  recks  the  time  or  place 

That  leads  the  soul  to  praise  and  prayer. 
Eliza  Cook. 

fF  for  some  of   us  action  cannot   mean 
doing,  then  remember  bearing,  too,  is 
action — often  its  hardest  part. 

W.  C.  Gannett. 

The  heroic  example  of  other  days  is  in 
great  part  the  source  of  the  courage  of 
each  generation  ;  and  men  walk  composedly 
to  the  most  perilous  enterprises,  beckoned 
onward  by  the  shades  of  the  braves  that 
were.  S.  Helps. 


5uli2  23,  205 

TJ/HATSOEVER  ye  do,   do  it  heartily,  as 
to  the  Lord. — Colossians  iii.  23. 

SUCH  is  life  !  We  are  brought  near  per- 
sons we  love  or  who  do  us  good  for  a 
time  ;  and  then  they  part  from  us,  or  we 
are  parted  from  them.  We  gain  friends, 
and  lose  them  out  of  sight  ;  we  have  bless- 
ings and  forfeit  them  ;  all  is  change  ;  .  .  . 
and  all  this  to  teach  us,  amid  all  which 
changes,  to  trust  alone  in  Him  who  changeth 
not  ;  to  use  faithfully  all  He  gives  us. 

E.    B.    PUSEY. 

The  things  of  earth 
Are  copies  of  the  things  in  Heaven,  more 

close, 
More   clear,    more   near,    more    intricately 

linked, 
More  subtly,  than  men  guess. 

Edwin  Arnold. 
►I- 
Hope — Memory.     Hope  is  the   morning 
blush  of  joy  ;  Memory  is  the  evening  radi- 
ance. J.   P.   RiCHTER. 

Prescribe  to  yourself  an  ideal  ;  then  live 
up  to  it.  Epictetus. 


2o6  5iiig  24. 

T-JEAR  counsel^  and  receive  instruction,  that 
thou  7nayest  be   wise  in  thy  latter  end. — 
Proverbs  xix.  20. 


BRING  before  us  the  truth  that  by  law, 
by  order,  by  due  subordination  of 
means  to  ends,  as  in  the  material,  so  in  the 
moral  world,  the  will  of  God  is  best  carried 
out.  Dean  Stanley. 


In  the  cloud  of  the  human  soul  there  is  a 
fire  stronger  than  the  lightning,  and  a  grace 
more  precious  than  the  rain. 

John  Ruskin. 


Ay,  love  it ;  'tis  a  sister  that  will  bless, 
And  teach  thee  patience  when  the  heart 
is  lonely. 
The  angels  love  it  ;  for  they  wear  its  dress. 
And  thou  art  made  a  little  lower  only  ; 
Then  love  the  Beautiful. 

E.  H.  Burrington. 


5ul^  25.  207 

/^O  UNSEL  in  the  heart  of  man  is  like  deep 
water  ;    but  a  man  of  understanding  will 
draw  it  out. — Proverbs  xx.  5. 


fT  seems  to  rne  we  can  never  give  up 
longing  and  wishing  while  we  are 
thoroughly  alive.  There  are  certain  things 
we  feel  to  be  beautiful  and  good,  and  we 
must  hunger  after  them. 

George  Eliot. 

Success  and  wealth  may  fill  the  years 
With  joys  that  far  outweigh  the  tears  ; 
O  dangerous  quicksands  'neath  our  feet: — 
So  careless,  so  prone  to  sin  ! 
God  keeps  us  beautiful  within  ! 

Emma  L.  Super. 


Each  night  is  followed  by  its  day. 

Moderation  is  the  silken  string  running 
through  the  pearl  chain  of  all  virtues. 

Fr.  Hall. 


2o8  5ulB  2^, 

J^UT  let   us,  who  are  of  the  day,  be  sober, 
putting   on   the   breastplate   of  faith    and 
love. — I  Thessalonians  v.  8. 


fINE  and  noble  theories  are  a  good 
introduction  to  fine  and  noble  practice. 
*'You  have  built  your  castle  in  air,"  said 
Thoreau;  ''that's  all  very  well;  now  put 
your  foundations  under  it." 

Lilian  Whiting. 


Haste  not:  let  no  reckless  deed 
Mar  for  aye  the  spirit's  speed; 
Ponder  well,  and  know  the  right — 
Forward  then  with  all  thy  might ! 
Haste  not;  years  cannot  atone 
For  one  reckless  action  done. 

Rest  not;  time  is  sweeping  by — 
Do  and  dare  before  thou  die: 
Something  mighty  and  sublime 
Leave  behind  to  conquer  time: 
Glorious  'tis  to  live  for  aye, 
When  these  forms  have  passed  away. 
Christopher  Christian  Cox. 


3u!l2  27.  209 

T^VEN    a    child  is   known    by   his   doings^ 
whether  his  work  be  pure^  a?id  whether  it 
be  right. — Proverbs  xx.  11. 

H    PRECIOUS    thing    is   all    the   more 
precious  to  us,  if  it  has  been  won  by 
work  or  economy.  John  Ruskin. 

Oh,  leave  thyself  to  God !  and  if  indeed 
'Tis  given  thee  to  perform  so  vast  a  task, 
Think   not  at  all;  think  not,  but  kneel  and 

ask. 
Oh,  friend!  by  thought  was  never  creature 

freed 
From  any  sin,  from  any  mortal  need. 
Be    patient  !     not   by   thought    canst    thou 

devise 
What  course  of   life   for  thee  is  right  and 

v/ise; 
It  will  be  written  up,  and  thou  wilt  read. 
Oft  like  a  sudden  pencil  of  rich  light, 
Piercing  the  thickest  umbrage  of  the  wood. 
Will  shoot,  amid  our  troubles  infinite. 
The  Spirit's  voice;  oft,  like  the  balmy  flood 
Of  morn,  surprise  the  universal  night 
With  glory,  and  m.ake  all  things  sweet  and 

good.  Thomas  Burbridge. 


2IO  5ulS  28. 

J-TE  that  is  sloiu  to  anger  is  better  than  the 
mighty  ;  and  he  that  ridetfi  his  spirit^  than 
he  that  taketh  a  city. — Proverbs  xvi.  32. 

And  this  for  comfort  thou  must  know: 
Times  that  are  ill  won't  still  be  so; 
Clouds  will  not  ever  pour  down  rain, 
A  sullen  day  will  clear  again. 

R.  Herrick. 

CONSIDER  the  dignity  of  this— to  be 
admitted  into  so  near  converse  v/ith 
the  highest  majesty.  Were  there  nothing 
to  follow, — no  answer  at  all, — no  prayer 
pays  itself  in  the  excellency  of  its  nature, 
and  the  sweetness  that  the  soul  finds  in  it. 
Bishop  Leighton. 

There  is  no  selfishness  and  cruelty  out- 
side  of  man   himself;  and   his  own   active 
benevolence  can  combat  and  vanquish  all. 
G.  Bernard  Shaw. 

Judge  not  thy  friend  until  thou  standest 
in  his  place.  Rabbi  Hillel. 


5ulB  29,  211 

IPPVERY  ivay  of  a  man  is  7'ight  in  his  own 

eyes  j  hut  the  Lord  ponder  eth  the  hearts. — 

Proverbs  xxi.  2. 

►I- 

Oh,  prayer  is  good,  when  many  pour 

Their  voices  in  one  solemn  tone; 
Conning  their  sacred  lessons  o'er, 

Or  yielding  thanks  for  mercies  shown. 
'Tis  good  to  see  the  quiet  train 

Forget  their  worldly  joy  and  care, 
While  loud  response  and  choral  strain 

Re-echo  in  the  house  of  prayer. 

Eliza  Cook. 

•^ 

'^f'HIS  faith  of  which  the  Scripture 
Vi/  speaks  is  not,  as  it  is  sometimes  said, 
the  paralysis  of  reason.  It  is  the  very 
glorification  of  reason.  It  is  the  powerful 
exercise  of  the  whole  spiritual  nature  in 
response  to  the  divine  call. 

Rev.  Leighton  Parks. 

{^His  Star  in  the  East. ) 

Always  remembering,  however  intoxicat- 
ing the  sense  of  mental  power,  that  the  intel- 
lectual life  is  too  dearly  bought  at  the  cost 
of  any  womanly  gentleness  or  sympathy. 
Edith  Robinson. 


212  5ulS  30. 

TT  is  joy    to    the  just    to    do  judgme?it, — 
Proverbs  xxi.    15. 

*^ 
Be  thou  content;  be  still  before 

His  face,  at  whose  right  hand  doth  reign 
Fullness  of  joy  for  evermore, 

Without  whom  all  thy  toil  is  vain. 
He  is  thy  living  spring,  thy  sun,  whose  rays 
Make  glad  with  life  and  light  thy  dreary  days. 
Be  thou  content. 

Lyra  Germanica. 

/f^F  all  vv^ork  that  produces  results  nine- 
Vi^  tenths  must  be  drudgery.  There  is  no 
work,  from  the  highest  to  the  lowest,  which 
can  be  done  well  by  any  man  who  is  un- 
willing to  make  that  sacrifice.  Part  of  the 
very  nobility  of  the  devotion  of  the  true 
workman  to  his  work  consists  in  the  fact 
that  a  man  is  not  daunted  by  finding  that 
drudgery  must  be  done.  .  .  And  there  is 
nothing  which  so  truly  repays  itself  as  this 
very  perseverance  against  weariness. 

Bishop  of  Exeter. 

Govern  thyself,  and  you  will  be  able  to 
govern  the  world. — Chinese  Maxim. 


5uls  31,  213 

A  GOOD  name  is  rather  to  be  chosen  than 
great  riches^  and  I oviiig  favour  rather  than 
silver  and  gold. — Proverbs  xxii.  i. 


But  often  have  I  stood  to  mark 

The  setting  sun  and  closing  flower; 
When  silence  and  the  gathering  dark 

Shed  holy  calmness  o'er  the  hour. 
Lone  on  the  hills,  my  soul  confessed 

More  rapt  and  burning  homage  there, 
And  served  the  Maker  it  addressed 

With  stronger  zeal  and  closer  prayer. 
Eliza  Cook. 


fEW  of  us  have  been  so  exceptionally 
unfortunate  as  not  to  find,  in  our  own 
age,  some  experienced  friend  who  has  helped 
us  by  precious  counsel,  never  to  be  forgotten. 
We  cannot  render  it  in  kind;  but  perhaps  in 
the  fullness  of  time  it  may  become  our 
noblest  duty  to  aid  another  as  we  have 
ourselves  been  aided,  and  to  transmit  to 
him  an  invaluable  treasure. 

Philip  Gilbert  Hamerton. 


214  Bngust  I. 

n^HE  rich  and  poor  meet  together:  the  Lord  is 
the  7naker  of  them  all. — Proverbs  xxii.  2, 

'T  seems  to  me  that  our  thoughts  are  a 
more  true  measure  of  ourselves  than  our 
actions  are.  .  .  The  contradiction  which  too 
often  exists  between  our  outward  actions 
and  our  inward  intentions  is  only  to  be  de- 
tected in  the  realm  of  our  thoughts,  whither 
none  but  God  can  penetrate.  .  .  In  like 
manner  an  impulse  will  sometimes  show 
more  of  our  real  character  than  what  we  do 
after  deliberation. 

Frederick  W.   Faber,  D.  D, 

Pray  ior  final  perseverance;  prepare  for 
it  by  daily  perseverance. 

Canon  Farrar. 

The  truth   is  higher  than  the  mind  that 
apprehends  it.  C.  Capen. 

Each  in  his  hidden  sphere  of  joy  or  v/oe 
Our  hermit  spirits  dwell,  and  range  apart; 

Our  eyes  see  all  around,  in  gloom  and  glow, 
Hues  of  their  own,  fresh  borrowed  from 
the  heart.  John  Keble. 


Bugust  2»  215 

"DY  humility    and    the   fear   of    the    Lo7'd 
are      riches,     a?id    honour,     and    life. — 
Proverbs  xxii.  4. 

Why  do  we  heap  huge  mounds  of  years 

Before  us  and  behind, 
And  scorn  the  little  days  that  pass 

Like  angels  on  the  wind  ? 

Dinah  Muloch  Craik. 

SURELY  we  must  believe  in  our  divine 
origin,  which  places  us  above  all  worldly 
rank,  above  all  riches,  above  all  beauty. 
But  it  is  not  enough  that  we  believe  this; 
vv^e  must  realize  also  that  with  life  power 
was  given  us  to  make  use  of  life,  each  one 
after  her  own  manner,  each  one  of  us  ac- 
cording to  the  way  the  gift  of  life  has  been 
expressed  in  her.  This  individual  ability  it 
is  which  every  one  of  us  must  strengthen 
to  the  utmost,  try  to  lead  out  to  perfec- 
tion, for  to  the  utmost  it  will  be  required 
from  us.  Annie  H.  Ryder. 

Happy  is  the  man  that  can  be  acquitted 
by  himself  in  private,  in  public  by  others, 
in  both  by  God.  Trapp. 


2i6  Buguet  3. 

J-JE  that  hath  a  bountiful  eye  shall  be  blessed: 
for  he  giveth  of  his  bread  to  the  poor.  — 
Proverbs  xxii.  9. 

Man,  in  his  weakness,  needs  a  stronger  stay 
Than  fellow-man,  the  holiest  and  the  best. 

And  yet  we  turn  to  them  from  day  to  day, 
As  if  in  them  our  spirits  could  find  rest. 

Anonymous. 


IF 


T    is    better   to    receive    than    to   do    a 
wrong.  Cicero. 


No  stream  from  its  source 
Flows  seaward,  how  lonely  soever  its  course, 
But  some  land  is  gladdened.     No  star  ever 

rose 
And  set  without  influence  somewhere.     No 

Hfe 
Can  be  pure  in  its  purpose  and  strong  in  its 

strife. 
And  all  life  not  be  purer  and  nobler  thereby. 
Owen  Meredith. 

Heaven  and  earth  are  threads  of  the  same 
loom.  Alfred  Tennyson. 


Bugust  4.  217 

/^A ST  out  the  sconier,  a?id  conte7itw?i  shall  go 
out  J  yea,  strife  and  reproach  shall  cease. — 
Proverbs  xxii.  10. 

'^^HE  fountain  of  Content  must  spring 
W^  up  in  the  mind  ;  and  he  who  has  so 
little  knowledge  of  human  nature  as  to  seek 
happiness  by  changing  anything  but  his  own 
dispositions,  will  waste  his  life  in  fruitless 
efforts,  and  multiply  the  griefs  which  he 
purposes  to  remove.  S.  Johnson. 

For  who  did  ever  yet  in  honor,  wealth, 
Or  pleasures  of  the   sense,    contentment 
find? 
Who   ever   ceased    to    wish,    when    he    had 
health; 
Or,  havingwisdom,  was  not  vexed  in  mind? 

So  when  the  soul  finds  here  no  true  content, 
And,  like  Noah's  dove,  can  no  sure  foot- 
ing take. 
She  doth  return  from  whence  she  first  was 
sent. 
And  flies  to  Him  that  first  her  wings  did 

make. 

Sir  John  Davies. 


2i8  Buau0t  5, 

AND  this  is  life  eternal,  that  they  might  kftow 
thee,  the  only  true  God. — John  xvii.  3, 


O  God  !  how  beautiful  the  thought, 

Flow  merciful  the  blest  decree, 
That  Grace  can  e'er  be  found  when  sought, 

And  naught  shut  out  the  soul  from  Thee. 
The  ceil  may  cramp,  the  fetters  gall, 

The    flames   may  scorch,    the   rack    may 
tear. 
But  torture-stake,  or  prison-wall. 

Can  be  endured  with  Faith  and  Prayer. 

Eliza  Cook. 

'^T'HE  journey  of  high  honor  lies  not  in 
^i^  smooth  Avays. 

Sir  Philip  Sidney. 

If  any  misanthrope  were  to  put  in  my 
presence  the  question,  ''Why  were  we 
born?"  I  should  reply,  ''To  make  an 
effort."  Charles  Dickens. 

How  can  we  tell  what  coming  people  are 
aboard  the  ships  that  may  be  sailing  to  us 
now  from  the  unknown  seas  ? 

Charles  Dickens. 


Bugust  6,  219 

ZL7y4  VE  I  not  written  to  thee  excelle?it  things 

in  comisels  and  knowledge  ? — Proverbs 

xxii.  20. 

*!« 

HO  can  weigh  circumstances,  pas- 
sions, temptations,  that  go  to  our 
good  and  evil  account,  save  On#,  before 
whose  awful  wisdom  we  kneel,  and  at  whose 
mercy  we  ask  absolution. 

Charles  Dickens. 

It  is  the  bounty  of  Nature  that  we  live^ 
but  of  Philosophy  that  we  live  well;  v/hich 
is,  in  truth,  a  greater  benefit  than  life  it- 
self. Seneca. 

Then,  God  has  set  us  worthy  gifts  to  earn, 
Besides  Thy  heaven  and  Thee!  and  when 
I  say 
There's  room  here  for  the  weakest  man  alive 
To  live  and  die; — there's  room,  too,  I  re- 
peat. 
For  all  the  strongest  to  live  well  and  strive, 
Their  own  way,  by  their  individual  heat. 
Like  a  new  bee-swarm  leaving  the  old  hive, 
Despite  the  wax  which  tempts  so  violet- 
sweet. 

Mrs.  Browning. 


220  BugiiSt  7. 

T  ET  not  thine  hea?'t  envy  smners  :  but  be  thou 
in  the  fea?-  of  the  Lord  all  the  day  lo?ig.  — 
Proverbs  xxiii.  17. 

I  KNOW  not  if  the  dark  or  bright 

Shall  be  my  lot  ; 
If  that  wherein  my  hopes  delight 

Be  best  or  not. 

My  bark  is  wafted  to  the  strand 

By  breath  divine, 
And  on  the  helm  there  rests  a  Hand 

Other  than  mine. 

Dean  Alvord. 

'^T'HEY  who  navigate  little  streams  and 
^i^  shallow  creeks  know  but  little  of  the 
God  of  tempests  .  .  .  Among  the  huge 
Atlantic-like  waves  of  bereavement,  pov- 
erty, temptation,  and  reproach,  we  learn 
the  power  of  Jehovah  because  we  feel  the 
littleness  of  man. 

Rev.  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 

Watch  for  the  kind  look  and  for  the 
helpful  word,  not  for  the  flitting,  ill-hu- 
mored, selfish,  sarcastic,  only  half-real  ut- 
terance of  thoughts. 

Annie  H.  Ryder. 


Bugust  8,  22  1 

pOR  surely  there  is  an  e?id ;   and  thine  ex- 
pectations shall  not  be  cut  off. — Proverbs 
xxiii.  i8. 

There's  not  a  leaf  that  falls  upon  the  ground 
But  holds  some  joy,  of  silence  or  of  sound, 
Some  sprite  begotten  of  a  summer  dream. 
The  very  meanest  things  are  made  supreme 
With  innate  ecstasy.  No  grain  of  sand 
But  moves  a  bright  and  million-peopled 
land. 

Laman  Blanchard 


1|VEACE,  hope,  courage,  faith  be  with  you, 
lIV  — not  the  faith  that  reaches,  trembling, 
toward  rest  beyond  the  grave,  but  faith  that 
reaches  down  deep — grasps  7ww  the  deep 
laid  cable  that  moves  the  car  of  humanity 
now. 

Ferdinand  Blanchard 


Have  we  not  always  found  in  our  past  ex- 
perience that,  on  the  whole,  our  kind  inter- 
pretations were  truer  than  our  harsh  ones  ? 

F.  W.  Faber. 


22  2  BU0U6t   9. 

QALVATION  is  of  the  Z^r^.— Jonah  ii.  9. 

He  holds  me  when  the  billows  smite; 

I  shall  not  fall  : 
If  sharp,  'tis  short  ;  if  long,  'tis  light; 

He  tempers  all. 

Dean  Alvord. 

♦IfF  men  will  have  no  care  for  the  future, 
■"   they  will  soon  have  sorrow  for  the  past. 
— Chinese  Maxim. 

4- 

If  we  still  ask,  ''Tell  me  thy  name? 
Give  me  some  name  by  which  that  face, 
that  name  of  Love  may  be  made  to  speak, 
and  smile,  and  guide  us,"  this  last  blessed 
name  is  made  known  to  us  in  prayer — in 
the  best  of  all  prayers,  in  the  opening  of 
the  One  Prayer  which  has,  beyond  any  other 
formulary  or  creed,  been  translated  into 
all  the  languages,  and  adopted  by  all  the 
civilized  nations  of  the  earth.  .  .  In  the 
natural  uplifting  of  the  spirits  of  all  man- 
kind to  God  in  the  Lord's  Prayer  is  the 
name  given  ..."  Our  Father  who  art  in 
Heaven  "— ''  Our  Father." 

Dean  Stanley. 


Bu0U6t  10.  223 

lA/E  1^'ill  walk  in  the  name  of  the  Lord  our 
God  for  ever  and  ever. — Micah  iv.  5. 

There  are   hours,  there  are  minutes,  which 
memory  brings. 
Like  blossoms  of  Eden,  to  twine  'round 
the  heart. 
And  as  Time  rushes  by  on  the  might  of  his 
wings 
They  may  darken  awhile,  but  they  never 
depart — 
O    those     hallowed    remembrances    cannot 
decay  ! 
But  they  come   on  the  soul  with  a  magi- 
cal thrill, 
And   in  days  that  are  darkest,  they  kindly 
will  stay. 
And  the  heart  in  its  last  throb  will  beat 
with  them  still. 

J.  G.  Percival. 

mO  man  or  woman  who  has  fallen  can 
be  restored  to  the  position  formerly 
held.  Such  must  rise  to  a  yet  higher  place, 
whence  they  can  behold  their  former  stand- 
ing far  beneath  their  feet. 

Geo.  MacDonald. 


224  Buguet  n. 

A  ND  the  Lord  their  God  shall  saT^e  them  in 
that   day   as  the  flock   of   his  people.  — 
Zechariah  ix.  i6. 


mo  great  and  permanent  work  comes 
out  of  a  narrow  and  trivial  life.  .  . 
For  it  is  one  of  the  eternal  laws  that  the 
real  life — that  which  is  permanent  and 
determining  —  depends  little  on  external 
scenery.  The  spirit  fashions  its  own  world, 
regardless ,  of  visible  correspondence  be- 
tween its  inner  visions  of  beauty  and  its 
actual  environment  of  limitations  or  even 
deprivations.  Fortunately,  poverty  of  purse 
does  not  necessarily  produce  poverty  of  the 
spirit.  Life  may  be  so  hedged  in  by  cir- 
cumstances as  to  be  narrow,  but  may  always 
be  deep  and  high.  And  it  is  height  that 
affords  an  outlook. 

Lilian  Whiting. 

We  are  watchers  of  a  beacon 
Whose  light  shall  never  die  ; 

We  are  guardians  of  an  altar 
'Mid  the  silence  of  the  sky. 

Felicia  Hemans. 


BugUBt  12.  225 

J^EHOLD^  the  day  of  the  Lord  cometh^  and 
thy  spoil  shall  be  divided  in  the  midst  of 
thee. — Zechariah  xiv.  i. 


♦II^OW  many  plans  for  God's  glory  have 
■■*^  fallen  to  the  ground,  which  a  bright 
look  or  a  kind  eye  would  have  propped  up  ! 
But  either  because  we  v/ere  busy  with  our 
own  work  and  never  looked  at  that  of 
others,  or  because  we  were  jealous  and 
looked  coldly  and  spoke  critically,  we  have 
not  come  with  this  facile  succor  to  the 
rescue  not  so  much  of  our  brother  as  of  our 
dearest  Lord  himself. 

Rev.  Frederick  W.  Faber,  D.  D. 


In  hope  a  king  doth  go  to  war,  , 

In  hope  a  lover  lives  full  long  ; 

In  hope  a  merchant  sails  full  far  ; 
In  hope  just  men  do  suffer  wrong  ; 

In  hope  the  plowman  sows  his  seed  ; 

Thus  hope  helps  thousands  at  their  need. 

Then  faint  not,  heart,  among  the  rest  ; 

Whatever  chance,  hope  thou  the  best. 
Richard  Alison. 


226  Bugust  13. 

AND   it  shall  be   in  that  day\   that  living 
waters  shall  go  out  from    Jerusalem. — 
Zechariah  xiv.  8. 

The  quality  of  mercy  is  not  strained  ; 

It  droppeth,  as  the  gentle  rain  from  heaven 

Upon    the     place    beneath  :     it     is     twice 

blessed  ; 
It  blesseth  him  that  gives,  and  him  that  takes. 
Wm.   Shakspeare. 

Our  life  is  but  a  step  in  dusty  way  ; 

Then    let    us    hold    the   bliss    of    peaceful 

mind  ; 
Since  this  we  feel,  great  loss  we  cannot  find. 
Sir  Philip  Sidney. 

/1T00D   resolutions    seldom    fail    of   pro- 
VJr^  ducing  some  good    in  the  mind  from 

which  they  spring. 

Charles  Dickens. 

Blessed  is  he  who  has  found  his  work  ; 
let  him  ask  no  other  blessedness  ;  he  has  a 
life  purpose.     Labor  is  life. 

Thomas  Carlyle. 


Bugu6t  14.  227 

J^OR  all  thmgs  co?ne  of  thee^  and  of  thbie 
own  have  we  given  thee, — i  Chronicles 
xxix.  14. 

"II^OU  may  choose  to  forsake  your  duties, 
Jj^  and  choose  not  to  have  the  sorrow 
they  bring  ;  but  you  will  go  forth  and  find, 
my  daughter,  sorrow  without  duty,  bitter 
herbs,  and  no  bread. 

Savonarola. 

Sometimes  (we  know  not  how,  nor  why,  nor 
whence) 
The   twitter  of  the  swallows   'neath  the 

eaves, 
The   shimmer   of   the    light   among    the 
leaves, 
Will  strike  up  through  the  thick  roof  of  our 
sense, 
And  show  us  things  which  seers  and  sages 
saw 
In  the  gray  earth's  green  dawn  ;   something 
doth  stir 
Like   organ-hymns   within    us,   and   doth 
awe 
Our  pulses  into  listening,  and  confer 
Burdens  of  Being  on  us. 

Richard  Realf. 


228  august  15, 

ATOW  therefore,  our   God,    we  thank   thee, 
and    praise     thy      glorious       name. — i 
Chronicles  xxix.  13. 


When  fears  and  perils  thicken  fast, 

And  many  dangers  gather  round; 
When  human  aid  is  vain  and  past, 

No  mortal  refuge  to  be  found; 
Then  can  we  firmly  lean  on  Heaven, 

And  gather  strength  to  meet  and  bear; 
No  matter  where  the  storm  has  driven, 

A  saving  anchor  lives  in  prayer. 

Eliza  Cook. 


^TO  get,  we  must  give;  to  accumulate,  we 
Vl^  must  scatter;  to  make  ourselves  happy, 
we  must  make  others  happy;  and  in  order 
to  become  spiritually  vigorous,  we  must  seek 
the  spiritual  good  of  others.  .  .  Prayer 
girds  human  weakness  with  divine  strength, 
turns  human  folly  into  heavenly  wisdom, 
and  gives  to  troubled  mortals  the  peace  of 
God.  Rev.  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


Buauet  16.  229 

T  KNO  VV  also,  my  God^  that  thou  triest  the 
hearty  and  hast  pleasure  in  uprightness. — i 
Chronicles  xxix.  17. 


Go  forth,  my  heart,  and  seek  delight 
In  ail  the  gifts  of  God's  great  might, 

These  pleasant  summer  hours; 
Look  how  the  plains  for  thee  and  me 
Have  decked  themselves  most  fair  to  see. 
Lyra  Germunica. 


®PPORTUNITIES  correspond  with 
almost  mathematical  accuracy  to  the 
ability  for  using  them.  Fitness  for  any 
work  creates  its  own  theater  of  action. 
.  .  Libraries  are  those  unfailing  foun- 
tains to  which  one  goes  to  be  filled.  Read- 
ing is  indeed  to  the  mind  as  is  food  to  the 
body — the  material  of  which  its  fibers  are 
made.  It  is  surprising  to  note  the  differ- 
ence in  the  quality  of  mental  thought  which 
even  one  half-hour's  good  reading  each  day 
will  make.  Lilian  Whiting. 


230  Sugust  17, 

T^OTH  7'iches  and  honour  come  of  thee,  a?id 
thou  reignest  over    all. — i     Chronicles 
xxix.   12. 


God  is  the  refuge  of  His  saints, 

When  storms  of  sharp  distress  invade; 

Ere  we  can  offer  our  complaints, 
Behold  Him  present  with  His  aid. 

Isaac  Watts. 

fDO  not  wish  to  lay  undue  stress  on  any 
one  of  the  springs  of  our  moral  strength. 
Like  the  sacred  river  of  the  Holy  Land,  so 
also  the  river  of  our  spiritual  life  has  many 
sources,  many  springs,  unrecognized  by 
man,  but  recognized  by  God. 

All  manner  of  good  deeds,  good  ex- 
amples, religious  forms  and  institutions — 
all  these,  in  their  different  ways,  go  to  swell 
the  current  of  our  good  thoughts.  But  still 
to  us  Christians  there  are  two  sources,  two 
springs  more  especially  sacred  and  impor- 
tant; and  these  are  the  fountains  of  morn- 
ing and  evening  prayer. 

Dean  Stanley. 


Bu^ust  18»  231 

AND  David  said  to  all  the   congregation^ 
Now  bless  the  Lord  your  God. — i  Chron- 
icles xxix.  20. 

Thou  must  not  undervalue  what  thou  hast, 
In    weighing   it    with    that   which  more    is 

graced. 
The  worth  that  weigheth  inward  should  not 

long 
For   outward    prices.      This    should    make 

thee  strong 
In  thy  close  value;  naught  so  good  can  be 
As  that  which  lasts  good  betwixt  God  and 

thee.  George  Chapman. 

*-> 

XOOK  for  beauty  in  commonest  things 
and  in  commonest  persons;  it  belongs 
only  to  those  who  find  it  and  has  a  value 
beyond  that  of  gold.  This  search  will  not 
interfere  with  duty,  but  may  soften  its 
asperities,  for  a  beautiful  life  is  the  choicest 
blossom  of  a  dutiful  one. 

Annie  H.  Ryder. 

Love's  secret  is  to  be  always  doing  things 
for  God,  and  not  to  mind  because  they  are 
such  very  little  ones.  F.  W.  Faber. 


232  BU0U6t  10. 

C^A  Y  not,  I  will  not  do  so  to  him  as  he  hath 
done   to   me :    I  will   render   to   the   man 
according  to  his  work. — Proverbs  xxiv.  29. 

Yet  if  we  will  one  Guide  obey, 
The  dreariest  path,  the  darkest  way, 
Shall  issue  out  in  heavenly  day. 

And  we,  on  divers  shores  now  cast. 

Shall  meet,  our  perilous  voyage  past, 

All  in  our  Father's  house,  at  last. 

R.  C.  Trench. 
►I- 

MHO  can  tell  .  .  .  what  invisible 
and  forgotten  accident  .  .  .  chance 
or  mischance  of  fortune,  may  have  altered 
the  current  of  life  ?  A  grain  of  sand  may 
alter  it,  as  the  flinging  of  a  pebble  may  end 
it.  Charles  Dickens. 

Events  otherwise  provocative  of  uncer- 
tainty   stimulate    a    positive    spirit    when 
recognized  as  factors  of  a  divine  result. 
Rev.  W.  R.  Newhall. 

After  all,  there  is  nothing  in  this  world 
but  character.  Bishop  Fowler. 


Bugust  20.  233 

"l^HESE  things  also  belong  to  the  wise.     It 
is  not  good  to  have  respect  of  persons  in 
judgme?it. — Proverbs  xxiv.  23. 

HS  the  human  countenance,  with  the 
same  features  in  us  all,  is  diversified 
without  end  in  the  race,  and  is  never  the 
same  in  any  two  individuals  ;  so  the  human 
soul,  with  the  same  grand  powers  and  laws, 
expands  into  an  infinite  variety  of  forms, 
and  would  be  woefully  stinted  by  modes  of 
culture  requiring  all  men  to  learn  the  same 
lesson,  or  to  bend  to  the  same  rules. 

Wm.  Ellery  Channing,  D.  D. 


Love,  hope,  fear,  faith — these  make 
humanity;  these  are  its  signs  and  note  and 
character. 

Robert  Browning. 

Sow  a  seed,  and  you  will  reap  a  habit  ; 
sow  a  habit,  and  you  will  reap  a  character; 
sow  a  character,  and  you  v/ill  reap  a 
destiny. 

Charles  R..  Deems. 


234  August  21  ♦ 

J^E  not  a  witness  against  thy  neighbour  7vithont 
cause ;   a7id  deceive   not  with    thy   lips. — 
Proverbs  xxiv.  28. 

•I- 
For  ye  have  need  of  patience,  that,  having 
done   the    will    of   God,   ye    may   receive    the 
pro77iise. — (Revised  Version)  Hebrews  x.  36. 

fT  is  this  desire  of  the  happiness  of 
those  whom  we  love  which  gives  to  the 
emotion  of  love  itself  its  principal  delight, 
by  affording  to  us  constant  means  of  its 
gratification.  He  who  truly  wishes  the 
happiness  of  anyone  cannot  be  long  with- 
out discovering  some  mode  of  contributing 
to  it.  Reason  itself,  with  all  its  light,  is 
not  so  rapid  in  discoveries  of  this  sort  as 
simple  affection,  which  sees  means  of  hap- 
piness, and  of  important  happiness,  where 
reason  scarcely  could  think  that  any  happi- 
ness was  to  be  found. 

Thomas  Brown. 

►^ 

Some  cold-mannered  friend  may  strangely 
do  us  the  truest  service. 

Alfred  Tennyson. 


Bugust  22.  235 

HTAKE  away  the  dross  from  the  silver,  a?id 
there  shall  come  forth  a  vessel  for  the  finer, 
—  Proverbs  xxv.  4. 

"wJ^ACH  solitary  kind  action  that  is  done, 
>*^  the  whole  world  over,  is  working 
briskly  in  its  own  sphere  to  restore  the 
balance  between  right  and  wrong.  The 
more  kindness  there  is  on  the  earth  at  any 
given  moment,  the  greater  is  the  tendency 
of  the  balance  between  right  and  wrong  to 
correct  itself  and  remain  in  equilibrium. 
Nay,  this  is  short  of  the  truth.  Kindness 
allies  itself  with  right  to  invade  the  wrong 
and  beat  it  off  the  earth. 

Frederick  W.  Faber,  D.  D. 

Were  there  nothing  else 
For  which  to  praise  the  heavens  but  love, 
That    only    love    were    cause    enough    for 
praise. 

Alfred  Tennyson. 

Those  whom  the  world  agrees  to  call 
great,  are  those  v/ho  have  done  or  pro- 
duced something  of  permanent  value  to 
humanity.  James  Anthony  Froude. 


236  Bugu0t  23. 

n^O-DAY  if  ye  will  hear  his  voice,  harden 
not  your  hearts. — Hebrews  iii.  15. 

Be  not  oi'ercome   of  evil,  but  overcome   evil 
with  good. — Romans  xii.  21. 

There  is  a  voice  to  mercy  true; 
To  them  who  mercy's  path  pursue 

That  voice  shall  bliss  impart — 
There  is  a  sight  from  man  concealed, 
That  sight,  the  face  of  God  revealed — 

Shall  bless  the  pure  in  heart. 

Bishop  Manx. 


^JJEE  how,  turn  which  way  we  will,  kind- 
*^  ness  is  entangled  with  the  thought  of 
God!  Last  of  all,  the  secret  impulse  out 
of  which  kindness  acts  is  an  instinct  which 
is  the  noblest  part  of  ourselves,  the  most 
undoubted  remnant  of  the  image  of  God, 
which  was  given  us  at  the  first.  We  must 
therefore  never  think  of  kindness  as  being 
a  common  growth  of  our  nature,  common 
in  the  sense  of  being  of  little  value.  It  is 
the  nobility  of  man. 

Frederick  W.   Faber. 


%\XQ\X6t  24»  237 

/I  JVD   because  ye   are   so7is^  God  hath   sent 
fo7'th  the  Spirit  of  his  Son  into  your  hearts^ 
ayi?igy  Abba,  Father. — Galatians  iv.  6. 


As  a  traveler,  returning 

To  his  home  from  some  far  land, 
Thinks  of  it  with  bosom  yearning 

Ere  his  foot  hath  touched  the  strand; 
So  amid  the  noisy  pleasures 

Of  the  world,  the  heart  oft  sighs 
For  the  nobler,  higher  treasures 

Laid  up  for  us  in  the  skies. 

From  Spitta. 


♦fl^E  who  knows  and  perceives  how  nigh 
■■•-'  God's  kingdom  is,  may  say  with 
Jacob  :  ''Surely,  the  Lord  is  in  this  place, 
and  I  knew  it  not."  God  is  in  all  things 
and  places  alike,  and  is  ever  alike  ready  to 
give  Himself  to  us,  in  so  far  as  we  are  able 
to  receive  Him;  and  he  knows  God  aright 
who  sees  Him  in  all  things. 

John  Tauler. 


238  Buaust  25. 

nHARITY  beareth  all  things,  believeth  all 
things^  hopeth  all  things^  endureth  all  things. 
—  I  Corinthians  xiii.  7. 


♦II^E  that  would  love  life, 

ii*/     And  see  good  days 
Let  him  refrain  his  tongue  from  evil. 
And  his  lips  that  they  speak  no  guile: 
And  let  him  turn  away  from  evil,  and  do 

good; 

Let  him  seek  peace,  and  pursue  it. 

For  the  eyes  of   the  Lord  are  upon  the 

righteous, 

And  his  ears  upon  their  supplications: 
But  the  face  of   the  Lord  is  unto    them 

that  do  evil, — (Revised  Version)  i   Peter 

iii.  10-12. 


^ 


Kindness  adds  sweetness  to  everything. 
It  is  kindness  which  makes  life's  capabil- 
ities blossom,  and  paints  them  with  their 
cheering  hues,  and  endows  them  with  their 
invigorating  presence. 

Frederick  W.  Faber. 


BuQust  2a.  239 

n^HOU  wilt  keep  him  in  perfect  peace  ivhose 
?nifid  is  stayed  on  thee  :  because  he  trusteth 
in  thee. — Isaiah  xxvi.  3. 

Know  ye  the  land  ?     Oh!   not  on  earth  it 

lies 
For  which   the  heart  in   hours  of   trouble 

sighs; 
Where  flows  no  tear,   no  sorrow   mars  the 

song, 
The  good  are  happy,  and  the  weak  are  strong. 
Know  ye  the  land  ? 

The  goal,  the  goal. 
Oh,  friends,  is  there!     Press  on  with  heart 

and  soul. 

From  the  German. 

^< 

SINCERITY  is  the  most  compendious 
wisdom,  and  an  excellent  instrument 
for  the  speedy  dispatch  of  business  :  it 
creates  confidence  in  those  we  have  to  deal 
with,  saves  the  labor  of  many  inquiries,  and 
brings  things  to  an  issue  in  few  words  :  it's 
like  traveling  in  a  plain  beaten  road,  which 
commonly  brings  a  man  sooner  to  his 
journey's  end  than  by-ways. 

John  Tillotson. 


240  Bugust  27. 

T  HA  VE  heard  of  thee  by  the  hearing  of  the 
ear. — Job  xlii.  5. 


*y]yn||HEREFORE  when  he  cometh  into 
^^SJ^  the  world,  he  saith : 

Sacrifice  and  offering  thou  wouldst  not, 

But  a  body  didst  thou  prepare  for  me; 

In  whole  burnt  offerings  and  sacrifices  for 
sin  thou  hadst  no  pleasure: 

Then  said  I,  Lo,  I  am  come 

(In  the  roll  of  the  book  it  is  written  of 
me) 

To  do  thy  will,  O  God. — (Revised  Ver- 
sion) Hebrews  x.  5-7. 


God  is  ever  ready,  but  we  are  very  un- 
ready; God  is  nigh  unto  us,  but  v/e  are  far 
from  Him;  God  is  within,  but  we  are  with- 
out; God  is  at  home,  but  we  are  strangers. 
*'God  leadeth  the  righteous  by  a  narrov/ 
path  into  a  broad  highway,  till  they  come 
unto  a  wide  and  open^  place;"  that  is,  unto 
the  true  freedom  of  that  spirit  which  hath 
become  one  spirit  with  God. 

John  Tauler. 


2lugu0t  28*  241 

HTHEY  that  wait  upon  the  Lord  shall  re- 
neiv  their  strength. — Isaiah  xl.  31. 


There  is  a  name,  in  Heaven  bestowed, 
That  name,  which  hails  the  ^'Sons  of  God,'* 

The  friends  of  peace  shall  know: 
There  is  a  kingdom  in  the  sky, 
Where  they  shall  reign  with  God  on  high, 

Who  serve  Him  best  below. 

Bishop  Mant. 

•^ 

'JT'HAT  is  the  truest  wisdom  of  a  man 
Vi^  which  doth  most  conduce  to  the  hap- 
piness of  life.  For  wisdom,  as  it  refers  to 
action,  lies  in  the  proposal  of  a  right  end 
and  the  choice  of  the  most  proper  means  to 
attain  it;  which  end  doth  not  refer  to  any 
one  part  of  a  man's  life,  but  to  the  v/hole  as 
taken  together. 

Edward  Stillingfleet,  D.  D. 

For  by  one  offering  He  hath  perfected  for 
ever  them  that  are  sanctified.  Whereof  the 
Holy  Ghost  also  is  a  witness  to  us. — He- 
brews X.  14. 


242  :augu0t  29. 

0(7  is  the  kingdom  of  God,  as  if  a  man  should 

cast  seed  into  the  ground  ;  and  should  sleep, 

and  rise  night  and  day,    and  the  seed  should 

spring  ajid  groiv  ?//,  he  kiioweth   not  how. — 

Mark  iv.  26-27. 

E'er  since,  by  faith,  I  saw  the  stream 
Thy  flowing  wounds  supply, 

Redeeming  love  has  been  my  theme. 
And  shall  be  till  I  die. 

William  Cowper. 

'TP^HE  conscience  of  a  man's  own  virtue 
^^  and  integrity  lifts  up  his  head,  and 
gives  him  confidence  before  others,  because 
he  is  satisfied  they  have  a  good  opinion  of 
his  actions.  What  a  good  face  does  a  man 
naturally  set  upon  a  good  deed! 

John  Tillotson. 

Wearing  the  white  flower  of  a  blameless 
life.  Alfred  Tennyson. 

The  whole  experience  of  life,  in  small 
things  and  in  great,  what  is  it  ?  It  is  an 
aggregate  of  real  forces. 

William  Ewart  Gladstone. 


Bugu0t  30,  243 

JDY  long  forbearing  is  a  prince  perstiaded, 
and  a   soft  tongue    breaketh    the  bone. — 
Proverbs  xxv.  15. 

Yes  ;  every   morning,    as  day  breaks  over 
Olivet, 

The  holy  name  of  Allah  comes  from  every 
minaret; 

At  every  eve  the  mellow  call  floats  on  the 
quiet  air, 

*'  Lo,  God  is  God  !     Before  Him  come,  be- 
fore Him  come,  for  prayer  ! " 

John  Pierpont. 


/T^REATNESS  confers  no  exemption 
Vi^  from  the  cares  and  .sorrows  of  life  ; 
its  share  of  them  frequently  bears  a  melan- 
choly proportion  to  its  exaltation.  This 
the  Israelitish  monarch  experienced.  He 
sought  in  piety  that  peace  which  he  could 
not  find  in  empire,  and  alleviated  the  dis- 
quietude of  state  v/ith  the  exercises  of  de- 
votion. His  invaluable  Psalms  convey  their 
comforts  to  others  which  they  afforded  to 
himself. 

Rev.  George  Horne,  D.  D. 


2  44  BU9U0t  31. 

Ti'OLLOW  after  peace  with  all  men,  and  the 
sanctification  without  which  no  man  shall 
see  the  Lord. — (Revised  Version)  Hebrews 
x'ii.  14. 

**  Ye  clouds,  that  gorgeously  repose 

Around  the  setting  sun, 
Answer — have  ye  a  home  for  those 

Whose  earthly  race  is  run  ?" 
The  bright  clouds  answered  :  * '  We  depart, 

We  vanish  from  the  sky  ; 
Ask  what  is  deathless  in  thy  heart 

For  that  which  cannot  die." 

"■  Speak,  then,  thou  voice  of  God  within. 

Thou  of  the  deep,  low  tone  ! 
Answer  me  through  life's  restless  din — 

Where  is  the  spirit  flown?" 
And  the  voice  answered  :   '*  Be  thou  still  ! 

Enough  to  know  is  given  : 
Clouds,  winds,  and  stars  tJieir  part  fulfill  : 

Thine  is  to  trust  in  Heaven." 

Felicia  Hemans. 


IF 


T  is  well  to  think  well;  it  is  divine  to  act 
well. 

Horace  Mann. 


September  !♦  245 

'pVERY  word  of  God  is  pure  :  he  is  a  shield 
unto  them  that  put  their  trust  in  hitn. — 
Proverbs  xxx.  5. 

^yWE  immortality  of  the  soul  is  a  thing 
^1^  which  so  deepl)^  concerns,  so  infinitely 
imports  us,  that  we  must  have  utterly  lost 
our  feeling  to  be  altogether  cold  and  remiss 
in  our  inquiries  about  it.  And  all  our 
actions  or  designs  ought  to  bend  so  very 
different  a  way,  according  as  we  are  encour- 
aged or  forbidden  to  embrace  the  hope  of 
eternal  rewards,  that  it  is  impossible  for  us 
to  proceed  with  judgment  and  discretion, 
otherwise  than  as  we  keep  this  point  always 
in  view,  which  ought  to  be  our  ruling 
object  and  final  aim. 

Blaise  Pascal. 

A  GREAT  soul  will  be  as  strong  to  live  as 
to  think.  R.  W.  Emerson. 

Human  life  is  so  capable  of  good  that  the 
veriest  criminal  can  hardly  be  without  some 
little  quality  worthy  of  appreciation. 

Annie  H.  Ryder. 


24^  September  2» 

T^EMO  VE  fai'  f  7-0771  77ie  vaTiity   and  lies  : 
give  77ie  neither  poverty  nor  7'iches  ;  feed 
vie  with  food  co7ivenie7it  for  7ne. — Proverbs 
XXX.  8. 

•!• 
Children    of    men  !     the    unseen    Power, 
whose  eye 
Forever  doth  accompany  mankind, 
Hath  looked  on  no  religion  scornfully 
That  man  did  ever  find. 

Which  has  not  taught  weak  wills  how  much 
they  can, 
Which  has  not  fallen  on  the  dry  heart  like 
rain 
Which   has  not   cried    to   sunk,    self-weary 
man  : 
Thou  77utst  be  born  again  ! 

Matthev;  Arnold. 

/T^OD  is  honored  by  a  willing  and  a  care- 
^^  ful  practice  of  all  piety  and  virtue  for 
conscience'  sake,  or  an  avowed  obedience 
to  His  holy  will.  This  is  the  most  natural 
expression  of  our  reverence  toward  Him, 
and  the  most  effectual  way  of  promoting 
the  same  in  others. 

Rev.  Isaac  Barrows. 


September  3,  247 

'T'O  everything  there  is  a  season,  and  a  time  to 
every  purpose  raider  the  heaven. — Eccle- 
SIASTES  iii.    I. 

Sow  ye  beside  all  waters, 

Where  the  dew  of  heaven  may  fall  ; 
Ye  shall  reap,  if  ye  be  not  v»'eary  ; 

For  the  spirit  breathes  o'er  all. 

Anna  Shipton. 

SURELY    without  a   union   to   God   we 
cannot  be  secure  or  well.     Can  he  be 
happy  who  from  happiness  is  divided  ?     To 
be  united  to  God  we  must  be  influenced  by 
His  goodness  and  strive  to  imitate  His  per- 
fections.     Diligence  alone  is  a  good  patri- 
mony ;    but  neglect  will  waste   the  fairest 
fortune.     One  preserves  and  gathers  ;   the 
other,  like  death,  is  the  dissolution  of  all. 
Owen  Feltham. 
*^ 
Outward  service  alone  is  of  no  value. 

C.  Geikie. 

•^ 

It  is  for  chastening  that  ye  endure  ;  God 
dealeth  with  you  as  with  sons  ;  for  what 
son  is  there  whom  his  father  chasteneth 
not  ? — (Revised  Version)  Hebrews  xii.  7. 


248  September  4, 

IN  the  morning  sow  thy  seed,  and  in  the  even- 
ing  withhold    not    thine   hand:   for    thou 
knowest  not  whether  shall  prosper,  either  this 
or  that,    or  ivhether   they  both    shall  be   alike 
good. — ECCLESIASTES  xi.   6. 

»^ 

Sow,  though  the  thorns  may  wound  thee  ; 

One  wore  the  thorns  for  thee  ; 
And,  though  the  cold  world  scorn  thee, 

Patient  and  helpful  be. 

Anna  Shipton. 

'JT'HE  goodliness  to  the  sight,  the  pleas- 
VJ/  antness  to  the  taste,  which  is  ever 
perceptible  in  those  fruits  which  genuine 
piety  beareth;  the  beauty  men  see  in  a  calm 
mind  and  a  sober  conversation;  the  sweet- 
ness they  taste  from  works  of  justice  and 
charity,  will  certainly  produce  veneration 
to  the  doctrine  that  teacheth  such  things, 
and  to  the  authority  which  enjoins  them. 
Rev.   Isaac  Barrows. 

Our  deeds  determine  us  as  much  as  we 
determine  our  deeds. 

George  Eliot. 


September  5*  249 

T  KNOW  that,  whatsoever  Goddoeth,  it  shall 
be  for  ever,   .    .    .    nor  anything  taken  from 
it. ECCLESIASTES  iii.    14. 

^f^HE  aim  of  Christianity  is  to  produce  a 
W*'  sanctified  and  noble  manliood  in  this 
world,  preparatory  for  angelhood  in  the 
higher  world.  He  that  works  well  for  his 
religion,  honors  it ;  but  he  that  lives  it 
well,  honors  it  more  ;  for  such  a  life  is, 
itself,  the  best  work,  and  empowers  all 
other  work.  Abel  Stevens. 

There  is  no  service  like  his  that  serves 

because  he  loves. 

Sir  Philip  Sidney. 

We  often  live  under  a  cloud,  and  it  is 
well  for  us  that  we  should  do  so.  Uninter- 
rupted sunshine  would  parch  our  hearts  : 
we  want  shade  and  rain  to  cool  and  refresh 
them.  J.  F.  W.  Ware. 

One  moment  of  self-conquest,  one  good 
action  really  done — yes,  one  effort  to  do 
right,  really  made — has  the  seal  of  time  put 
on  it.  James  Freeman  Clarke. 


25°  September  e. 

^/iLL  unto  nie^  and  I  ivill  anstver  thee,  and 
shew  thee  great  and  mighty  things,  which 
thou  knowest  not. — Jeremiah  xxxiii.  3. 

-^pr^RUTH  and  reality  have  all  the  advan- 
^"^  tages  of  appearance  and  many  more. 
If  the  show  of  anything  be  good  for  any- 
thing, I  am  sure  sincerity  is  better  ;  for 
why  does  any  man  dissemble,  or  seem  to  be 
that  which  he  is  not,  but  because  he  thinks 
it  is  good  to  have  such  a  quality  as  he  pre- 
tends to  ?  for  to  counterfeit  and  dissemble 
is  to  put  on  the  appearance  of  some  real 
excellency.  Now,  the  best  way  in  the  world 
for  a  man  to  seem,  to  be  anything,  is  really 
to  be  what  he  would  seem  to  be. 

John  Tillotson. 

My  son,  regard  not  lightly  the  chasten- 
ing of  the  Lord,  nor  faint  when  thou  art 
reproved  by  him  :  for  whom  the  Lord  loveth 
he  chasteneth. — (Revised  Version)  He- 
brews xii.  <-6. 

No  great  characters  are  formed  in  this 
world  without  suffering  and  self-denial. 

Matthew  Henry. 


September  7.  251 

AND  he  saith  tinio  them,  Follow  me,  and  I 
will  make  you  fishers  of  men. — Matthew 
iv.  19. 

We  will  not  deplore  them,  the  days  that  are 

past ; 
The  gloom  of  misfortune  is  over  them  cast — 
They  are  lengthened  by  sorrow,  and  sullied 

by  care  ; 
Their  griefs  were  too  many,  their  joys  were 

too  rare  ; 
Yet,  now  that  their  shadows  are  on  us  no 

more, 

Let  us  welcome  the  prospect  that  brightens 

before  ' 

Epes  Sargent. 

'^*'HE  thread  that  nature  spins  is  seldom 
^i^  broken  off  by  anything  but  death.  I 
do  not  mean  by  this  limit  the  operation  of 
God's  grace,  for  that  may  do  wonders  ;  but 
humanly  speaking,  and  according  to  the 
method  of  the  world,  and  the  little  correct- 
ives supplied  by  art  and  discipline,  it 
seldom  fails  but  an  ill  principle  has  its 
course,  and  nature  makes  good  its  blows. 
Rev.   Robert  South,  D.  D. 


252  September  8. 

'OLESSED  are  the  poor  in  spirit^  for  theirs 
is  the  kingdom  of  heaven. — Matthew  v.  3. 

That  which  hath  been  is  now,  and  that  which 
is  to  be  hath  already  been  ;  and  God  requireth 
that  which  is  past. — Ecclesiastes  iii.  15. 

HN  occasional  effort  even  of  an  ordinary 
holiness  may  accomplish  great  acts  of 
sacrifice,  or  bear  severe  pressure  of  un- 
wonted trial,  especially  if  it  be  the  subject 
of  observation.  But  constant  discipline  in 
unnoticed  ways,  and  the  hidden  spirit's 
silent  unselfishness,  becoming  the  hidden 
habit  of  the  life,  give  to  it  its  true  saintly 
beauty,  and  this  is  the  result  of  care  and 
lowly  love  in  little  things.  Perfection  is 
attained  most  readily  by  this  constancy  of 
religious  faithfulness  in  all  minor  details  of 
life,  in  the  lines  of  duty  which  fill  up  what 
remains  to  complete  the  likeness  to  our 
Lord,  consecrating  the  daily  efforts  of  self- 
forgetting  love.  T.  T.  Carter. 

A  GOOD  action  never  perishes,  neither 
before  God  nor  before  men.  — Asiatic  Proverb. 


September  9.  253 

TJTAVE  always  a  co7isdence  void  of  offense 
toward    God    and   toward  men. — Acts 
xxiv.  16. 

Soft  slumbers  now  mine  eyes  forsake, 

My  powers  are  all  renewed ; 
May  my  freed  spirit,  too,  awake, 

With  heavenly  strength  endued. 

Hannah  More. 

SPEAK  well  of  the  absent  whenever 
you  have  a  suitable  opportunity. 
Never  speak  ill  of  them,  or  of  anybody, 
unless  you  are  sure  they  deserve  it,  and 
unless  it  is  necessary  for  their  amendment, 
or  for  the  safety  and  benefit  of  others. 

Sir  Matthew  Hale. 

Never  speak  anything  evil  of  a  man  if 
you  do  not  know  it  for  a  certainty:  and  if 
you  know  it  for  a  certainty,  then  ask  your- 
self:  ''Why  should  I  tell  it?" 

Lavater. 

The  main  token  of  a  strong  character  is 
not  to  make  known  every  change  in  thought 
and  feeling,  but  to  give  the  world  the  fin- 
ished results.  Auerbach. 


254  September  10. 

n~^HE  voice  of  joy  and  the  voice  of  gladness^ 
the  voice  of  the  bridegroom  and  the  voice  of 
the  bride,  the  voice  of  them  that  shall  say, 
Praise  the  Lord  of  Hosts  :  for  the  Lord  is 
good :  for  his  mercy  endureih  forever  :  and  of 
them  that  shall  bring  the  sacrifice  of  praise  into 
the  house  of  the  Lord. — Jeremiah  xxxiii.  ii. 

Hope,   child  !   to-morrow  hope  !   and  then 
again  to-morrow; 
And    then  to-morrow   still  !     Trust  in  a 
future  day. 
Hope,  and  each  morn  the  skies  new  light 
from  dawn  shall  borrow; 
As  God  is  there  to  bless,  let  us  be  there 
to  pray. 

Victor  Hugo. 

♦fC^E   is  the  eloquent  man  who  can  treat 
■■•^  humble    subjects  with  delicacy,    lofty 
things   impressively,   and    moderate  things 
temperately.  Cicero. 

Man's  help  comes  not  from  the  earth,  nor 
from  daily  experiences,  but  from  sources 
that   are   unseen   and    eternal. 

C.  Capen. 


September  U.  255 

00   by  the   obedience    of  one   shall    many  be 
made  righteous. — Romans  v.  19. 


'^'HERE  is  the  same  difference  between 
Vl/  diligence  and  neglect  that  there  is 
between  a  garden  properly  cultivated  and 
the  sluggard's  field  which  fell  under  Solo- 
mon's view,  when  overgrown  with  nettles 
and  thorns.  The  one  is  clothed  with  beauty, 
the  other  is  unpleasant  and  disgusting  to 
the  sight.  Negligence  is  the  rust  of  the 
soul,  that  corrodes  through  all  her  best 
resolutions. 

Owen  Feltham. 


Search  not  the  roots  of  the  fountain, 

But  drink  the  water  bright  ; 
Gaze  far  above  the  mountain. 

The  sky  may  speak  in  light. 
But  yet,  if  thou  see  no  beauty — 

If,  widowed,  thy  heart  yet  cries — 
With  thy  hands  go  and  do  thy  duty, 

And  thy  work  will  clear  thine  eyes. 
George  MacDonald. 


256  September  X2, 

TDEJOICE  a?id  be  exceeding  glad,  for  great 
is  your    reward    in   heaven. — Matthew 
V.  12. 


How  far  from  here  to  heaven  ? 

Not  very  far,  my  friend ; 
A  single  hearty  step 

Will  all  thy  journey  end. 
Hold  there  !  where  runnest  thou  ? 

Know  heaven  is  in  thee  ! 
Seekest  thou  for  God  elsewhere  ? 

His  face  thou  'It  never  see. 

Angelus  Silesius. 


ME  are  born  v/ith  faculties  and  powers 
capable  almost  of  anything,  such,  at 
least,  as  would  carry  us  farther  than  can  be 
easily  imagined;  but  it  is  only  the  exercise 
of  these  powers  which  gives  us  ability  and 
skill  in  anything,  and  leads  us  toward  per- 
fection. John  Locke. 

How  wise  and  happy  is  the  man  who 
continually  endeavors  to  be  as  holy  in  the 
day  of  life  as  he  wishes  to  be  found  in  the 
day  of  death  !  Thomas  a  Kempis. 


September  13.  257 

l/"^  are  the  salt  of  the  earth  :  but  if  the  salt 
have  lost  his  savour,  wherewith  shall  it  be 
salted? — Matthew  v.  13. 


^T'HE  most  ordinary  occupations  can  be 
VL'  sanctified  by  being  pursued  as  in  His 
sight.  Morning  prayers  earnestly  offered; 
a  few  hearty  aspirations  for  help  and  grace 
darted  up  at  intervals  of  a  busy  day;  an 
honest  review  at  night  of  thoughts,  words, 
and  deeds;  a  childlike  confession  of  sin  as 
to  a  Father;  a  thoughtful  recognition  of  His 
goodness;  a  commendation  of  one's  self  and 
those  whom  we  love  to  His  protection — is 
this  a  great  or  painful  thing  to  do  ? 

Dr.  Bright. 


The  heart  that  trusts  forever  sings, 
And  feels  as  light  as  it  had  wings: 
A  well  of  peace  within  it  springs; 

Come  good  or  ill, 
Whate'er  to-day — to-morrow — brings, 

It  is  His  will  ! 

Isaac  Williams. 


258  September  14. 

jDUT  love  ye  you)'  eneinies  and  do  good,  and 
lend,  hoping  for  nothmg  again  ;  arid  your 
reward  shall  be  great,  and  ye  shall  be  the  chil- 
dren of  the  Highest. — Luke  vi.  35. 

Watch  not  the  clouds  above  thee: 
Let  the  whirlwind  round  thee  sweep; 

God  may  the  seed-time  give  thee, 
But  another's  hand  may  reap. 

Anna  Shipton. 

'^T^RUE  greatness  is  in  the  character, 
Wi/  never  in  the  circumstances.  No  mat- 
ter about  wearing  a  crown;  make  sure  that 
you  have  a  head  worthy  of  wearing  a  crown. 
No  matter  about  the  purple;  make  sure  that 
you  have  a  heart  worthy  of  the  purple.  No 
matter  about  a  throne  to  sit  on;  make  sure 
that  your  life  is  regal  in  its  own  intrinsic 
character — that  men  will  recognize  the  king 
in  you,  though  you  toil  in  the  field  or  mine 
or  serve  in  the  lowliest  place. 

Rev.  J.  R.  Miller,  D.  D. 

Live  to  explain  thy  doctrine  by  thy  life. 

M.  Prior. 


September  15.  259 

T  AY  not  up  for  you?' selves   treasiwes   upon 
earthy  whe7'e  7710th  a7id  rust  doth  corrupt^ 
and  where  thieves  break  through  and  steal :  but 
lay  up  for  yourselves  treasures  in  heaven. 

For  where  your  treasure  is,  there  will  your 
heart  be  also.— Matthew  vi.  19,  20,  21. 


In  vain  men  tell  us  time  can  alter 

Old  loves  or  make  old  memories  falter. 

Old  thanks,  old  thoughts,  old  aspirations 
Outlive  men's  lives  and  lives  of  nations. 

Swinburne. 


♦fTT  is  a  vain  thought  to  flee  from  the 
II   work  that  God  appoints  for  us,  for  the 

sake  of  finding  a  greater  blessing  to  our 
own  souls,  as  if  we  could  choose  for  our- 
selves where  we  shall  find  the  fullness  of 
the  Divine  Presence,  instead  of  seeking  it 
where  it  alone  is  to  be  found — in  loving 
obedience. 

George  Eliot. 


26o  September  I  a* 

T  ET  us  therefore  fear,  lest  haply,  a  pro??use 
being  left  of  entering  into  his  rest,  any  one 
of  you    should    seem    to    have   come   short. — 
(Revised  Version)  Hebrews  iv.  i. 

'^HOU  wilt  find,  if  thou  art  Christ's,  that 
VL'  after  all,  even  at  this  day,  endurance, 
in  a  special  sense,  is  the  lot  of  those  who 
offer  themselves  to  be  servants  of  the  King 
of  sorrows.  If  they  have  drunk  of  Christ's 
Cup  and  tasted  His  Bread  in  sincerity,  it  is 
not  with  them  as  in  time  past.  They  came 
as  for  a  blessing,  and  they  have  found  work. 
They  are  soldiers  in  Christ's  army,  they 
fight  against  'Uhings  that  are  seen,"  and 
they  have  all  these  things  against  them. 
O  simple  soul,  is  it  not  the  law  of  thy 
being  to  endure?  Why  camest  thou  but  to 
endure  ?  J.   H.   Newman. 

Is  thy  cruse  of  comfort  wasting  ? 

Rise  and  share  it  with  another. 
And  through  all  the  years  of  famine 

It  shall  serve  thee  and  thy  brother. 
Mrs.  Charles. 

There   is    that   scattereth,    and    yet   in- 
creaseth. — Proverbs  xi.  24. 


September  17.  261 

J  ET  us  hear  the    conclusion   of   the   whole 

7natter  :  Fear  God^  and  keep  his  command- 

ments;  for  this  is  the  whole  duty  of  man. — 

ECCLESIASTES  xH.    I3. 

In  ceaseless  toil  from  year  to  year, 

Working  with  loath  or  willing  hands, 
Stone  upon  stone  we  shape  and  rear. 
Till  the  completed  fabric  stands  : 
And    when    the    last   hush    hath    all    labor 

stilled. 
The   searching  fire  will   try  what  we  have 
striven  to  build. 

Wm.   Morley  Punshon. 

♦|fT  is  net  wealth  that  gives  the  true  zest 
■■  to  life,  but  reflection,  appreciation, 
taste,  culture.  Above  all,  the  seeing  eye 
and  the  feeling  heart  are  indispensable; 
with  these,  the  humblest  lot  may  be  made 
blessed.  Labor  and  toil  may  be  associated 
with  the  highest  thoughts  and  the  purest 
tastes.  Samuel  Smiles. 

Recollection  is  the  only  Paradise  from 
which  we  cannot  be  turned  out. 

J.   P.   Richter. 


262  September  IS, 

A  SK,  and  it  shall  be  given  you  ;  seek,  and  ye 
shall  find ;  knock^  and  it  shall  be  opened 
unto  you. — Matthew  vii.  7. 


CHARACTER  .  .  .  is  the  core  on  which 
the  world  turns.  It  is  the  pivot  of 
destiny.  Let  us  not  worry  about  reputa- 
tion, but  let  us  see  to  it  that  our  characters 
are  right.  Reputation  is  the  dust  at  which 
swine  become  frightened  in  the  street. 
Character  is  the  jewel  that  blazes  on  the 
brow  of  royalty.  .  .  Character  is  the  ver- 
dict of  the  eternal  Judge. 

Bishop  Fowler. 

Not   by   deeds    that   win    the    crowd's  ap- 
plauses ; 
Not  by  works  that  give  thee  world-renown ; 
Not  by  martyrdom  or  vaunted  crosses, 
Canst  thou  win  and  wear  the  immortal 
crown. 

Daily  struggling,  though  unloved  and  lonely, 
Every  day  a  rich  reward  will  give  ; 

Thou  wilt  find  by  hearty  striving  only, 
Truly  loving  thou  canst  truly  live. 

Mrs.  Liszt. 


September  \9.  263 

TN your  patience  possess  ye  you7'  souls. — Luke 
xxi.  19, 

In  One  who  walked  on  earth  a  man  of  woe, 
AVas  hoHer  peace  than  e'en  this  hour  in- 
spires. 
From  Him  to  me  let  inward  quiet  flow, 
And  give  the   might  my  failing  will   re- 
quires. 

John  Sterling. 


HS  it  is  given  us  in  the  night  of  this  world 
to  behold  the  heavens  studded  with 
stars,  great,  glorious,  and  beautiful,  in  like 
manner  has  Scripture  opened  to  our  view  a 
sight  of  the  blessed  angels.  They  appear 
as  stars  around  us  ;  but  no  unconcerned 
spectators  in  their  silent  watches.  Michael, 
'■^who  is  as  God";  Gabriel,  *'the  strength 
of  God";  Raphael,  ''the  healing  of  God" 
(so  their  names  signify).  They  are  minis- 
tering spirits  sent  by  Him,  shadows  of  His 
presence.  He  has  revealed  to  us  their  deep 
concern  for  our  welfare,  their  active  minis- 
trations about  us  day  and  night.  What  a 
dignity  does  this  shed  upon  our  daily  life! 

Isaac  Williams. 


264  September  20« 

ZP  UT I  have  prayed  for  thee,  that  thy  faith 
fail  not :    and  when  thou   art   converted^ 
strengthen  thy  brethren. — Luke  xxii.  32. 


Without  an  end  or  bound 

Thy  life  lies  outspread  in  light; 
Our  lives  feel  Thy  life  all  around, 

Making  our  weakness  strong,   our  dark- 
ness bright; 
Yet  is  it  neither  wilderness  nor  sea, 
But  the  calm  gladness  of  a  full  eternity. 
Frederick  W.  Faber. 


mIND  words  are  the  music  of  the  world^ 
They  have  a  power  which  seems  to  be 
beyond  natural  causes,  as  if  they  were  some 
angel's  song,  which  had  lost  its  way  and 
come  on  earth.  It  seems  as  if  they  could 
almost  do  what  in  reality  God  alone  can  do 
— soften  the  hard  and  angry  thoughts  of 
men.  No  one  was  ever  corrected  by  a  sar- 
casm; crushed,  perhaps,  if  the  sarcasm  was 
clever  enough,  but  drawn  nearer  to  God — 
never.  Frederick  W.  Faber. 


September  21.  265 

jD  UT  as  many  as  received  Jiiin,  to  them  gave 
he  power  to  become  the  sons  of  God,  even  to 
them  that  believe  on  his  name. — John  i.  12. 


God's  in  His  heaven — 
All's  right  with  the  world ! 

Robert  Browning. 

HS  the  feet,  in  the  journey  of  life,  plod 
along  places  smooth  and  others  rough 
and  stony,  where  the  thorny  hedge  hedges 
out  or  hedges  in,  by  the  still  waters  and 
waters  raging,  in  meadows  green  and  mead- 
ows parched,  through  valleys  and  over  hills 
toward  the  great  city,  what  is  more  delight- 
ful than  to  fall  in  with  a  bright,  lovely  par- 
ticular spirit  traveling  the  same  way? 

W.   M.    BiCKNELL. 


A  HAPPY  man  or  woman  is  a  better 
thing  to  find  than  aught  else.  He  or  she  is 
a  radiating  focus  of  good  will,  and  their 
entrance  into  a  room  is  as  though  another 
candle  had  been  lighted.  .  .  They  practi- 
cally demonstrate  the  great  theorem  of  the 
livableness  of  life.  Anonymous. 


266  September  22. 

T  AM  the  good  shepherd,  and  know  my  sheepy 
and  am  known  of  mine. — John  x.  14. 

Down  in  the  pleasant  pastures, 

Beside  the  waters  still, 
Behold  the  Shepherd  leadeth 

His  little  flock  at  will; 
Gently,  oh,  gently  guiding 

The  way  His  sheep  must  go, 
Still  onward  to  the  fountain 

Where  the  living  waters  flow. 

Anna  Shipton. 

XOVE  and  commend  a  true  good  fame, 
because  it  is  the  shadow  of  virtue;  not 
that  it  doth  any  good  to  the  body  which  it 
accompanies,  but  it  is  an  efficacious  shadow, 
and  like  that  of  St.  Peter,  cures  the  diseases 
of  others.  Abraham  Cowl^jy 

Too  much  love  there  can  never  be. 

Robert  Browning. 

Next  to  faith  in  God  is  faith  in  labor. 

BOVEL. 


September  23*  267 

'pOR  everyone  that  asketh  receiveth  j  and  he 
that  seeketJi  findethj  and  to  him  that  knock- 
eth  it  shall  be  opened. — Matthew  vii.  8. 

There    are    great  truths    that    pitch  their 
shining  tents 

Outside   our  walls,   and   though  but  dimly- 
seen 

In  the  gray  dawn,  they  will  be  manifest 

When  the  light  widens  into  perfect  day. 
Michael  Angelo. 

XIFE  and  the  world,  their  interests, 
their  careers,  the  varied  gifts  of  our 
nature,  the  traditions  of  our  forefathers,  the 
treasures  of  laws,  institutions,  usages,  of 
languages,  of  literature,  and  of  art;  all  the 
beauty,  glory,  and  delight  with  which  the 
Almighty  Father  has  clothed  this  earth  for 
the  use  and  profit  of  his  children,  and  which 
evil,  though  it  has  defaced,  has  not  been 
able  utterly  to  destroy;  all  these  are  not 
merely  allowable,  but  ordained  and  ap- 
pointed instruments  for  the  training  of 
mankind. 

William  Ewart  Gladstone. 


268  September  24. 

TJ/ITH  what  ijieasure  ye  mete,    it  shall  be 
measu7-ed    to   you    again. — Matthew 
vii.    2. 

►;• 

Be  what  thou  seemest;  live  thy  creed  ; 

Hold  up  to  earth  the  torch  divine; 
Be  what  thou  prayest  to  be  made; 

Let  the  great  Master's  steps  be  thine. 

HORATIUS  BONAR, 

/^UR  own  comfort  is  increased  by  our 
Vi^  working  for  others.  We  endeavor  to 
cheer  them,  and  the  consolation  gladdens 
our  own  heart — like  the  two  men  in  the 
snow:  one  chafed  the  other's  limbs  to  keep 
him  from  dying,  and  in  so  doing  kept  his 
own  blood  in  circulation,  and  saved  his  own 
life.  Rev.  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 

The  spirit  of  God  lies  touching,  as  it 
were,  the  soul  of  man — ever  around  and 
near.  .  .  All  men  are  not  spiritual  men,  but 
all  have  spiritual  sensibilities  which  might 
awaken.  All  that  is  wanted  is  to  become 
conscious  of  the  nearness  of  God.  .  .  God 
lies  around  us;  at  any  moment  we  might  be 
conscious  of  the  contact. 

F.  W.  Robertson. 


September  25.  269 

T/"^  s/ia//  know  them  by  their  fruits.     Do  men 
gather  grapes  of  thorns^  or  figs  of  thistles  ? 
Even  so  every  good  tree  bringeth  forth  good  fruit. 
— Matthew  vii.  16,  17. 

XET  this  and  every  dawn  of  morning  be 
to  you  as  the  beginning  of  life,  and 
let  every  setting  sun  be  to  you  as  its  close. 
Let  every  one  of  these  short  lives  leave  its 
sure  record  of  some  kindly  thing  done  for 
others — some  goodly  strength  or  knowledge 
gained  for  yourselves. 

John  Ruski^t. 

From  endeavor  to  endeavor, 
Journeying  with  the  hours  forever, 
Or  aspiring,  or  acquiring. 
This,  O  man  !  is  life  in  time 
Urged  by  that  primal  word  sublime — 

God's  great  one  word. 
Silent  never,  pealing  ever — 

Onward  ! 

Charles  Harpur. 

How  can  it  be  known  you  are  in  earnest, 
if  the  act  follows  not  upon  the  word  ? 

H.  Coleridge. 


2  70  September  26, 

'^jESUS  answered,  My  kingdom  is  not  of  this 
^     world. — John  xviii.  36. 


O  HUMAN  heart !  thou  hast  a  song 
For  all  that  to  the  earth  belong, 
Whene'er  the  golden  chain  of  love 
Hath  linked  thee  to  the  heaven  above. 
Sarah  Flower  Adams. 


ME  are  learning  to  think  of  all  truth, 
whatever  its  source  or  however  it 
comes  to  us,  as  so  many  sentences  in  the 
ever  growing  book  of  God. 

MiNOT  J.  Savage. 

Take  Joy  home, 
And  make  a  place  in  thy  great  heart  for  her, 
And  give  her  time  to  grow,  and  cherish  her. 
Then  will  she   come,  and   oft  will  sing  to 

thee 
When  thou  art  working  in  the  furrows — ay, 
Or  weeding  in  the  sacred  hour  of  dawn. 
It  is  a  comely  fashion  to  be  glad  ; 
Joy  is  in  the  grace  we  say  to  God. 

Jean  Ingelow. 


September  27.  271 

JSJO  W  we  have  received^  not  the  spirit  of  the 
worldy  but  the  spU'it  which  is  of  God;  that 
we  might  know  the  things  that  are  freely  given 
to  us  of  God. — I  Corinthians  ii.  12. 


I'm  apt  to  think,  the  man 

That  could  surround  the  sum  of  things,  and 
spy 

The  heart  of  God  and  secrets  of  His  em- 
pire, 

Would  speak  but  love.     With  him  the  bright 
results 

Would    change    the    hue    of    intermediate 
scenes. 

And  make  one  thing  of  all  theology. 

G  A  M  B o  LD   (Moravian  poet) . 

♦ffT  is  of  no  use  to  hope  that  we  shall  be 

bI  well  rooted  if  no  rough  winds  pass  over 
us.  Those  old  gnarlings  on  the  root  of  the 
oak  tree,  and  those  strange  twistings  of  the 
branches,  all  tell  of  the  many  storms  that 
have  swept  over  it,  and  they  are  also  indi- 
cations of  the  depth  into  which  the  roots 
have  forced  their  way. 

Rev.  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


272  September  28, 

pOR  the  Father  himself  loveth  yo7i,  because 
ye  have  loved  7ne,  and  have  believed  that  I 
came  out  from  God.  I  came  fo?'th  from  the 
Father,  and  am  come  into  the  world :  Again ^ 
I  leave  the  world,  and  go  to  the  Father. — 
John  xvi.  27,  28. 

Only  stay  by  His  side 

Till  the  page  is  really  known; 

It  may  be  we  failed  because  we  tried 
To  learn  it  alone; 

And  now  that  He  would  not  let  us  lose 
Our  lesson  of  love 

(For  He  knows  the  loss),  can  we  refuse  ? 
Frances  Ridley  Havergal. 

mo  cloud  can  overshadow  a  true  Chris- 
tian, but  his  faith  will  discern  a  rain- 
bow in  it.  Bishop  Horne. 

Oh,  do  not  let  us  wait  to  be  just  or  piti- 
ful or  demonstrative  toward  those  we  love 
until  they,  or  we,  are  struck  down  by  ill- 
ness or  threatened  with  death!  Life  is 
short,  and  we  have  never  too  much  time  for 
gladdening  the  hearts  of  those  who  are 
traveling  the  dark  journey  with  us. — AmieVs 
Journal. 


September  29.  273 

n^HESE  things  I  have  spoken  unto  you,  that 
in  me  ye  might  have  peace.     In  the  world 
ye  shall  have  tribetlatio?i  :   but  be  of  good  cheer  ; 
I  have  overcome  the  world. — John  xvi.  33. 

Thy  triumphs,  Faith,  we  need  not  take 

Alone  from  the  blest  martyr's  stake; 

In  scenes  no  less  we  see 

That  Faith  is  a  reality; 

An  evidence  of  things  not  seen, 

A  substance  firm  whereon  to  lean. 

Hannah  More. 

®N  a  day  of  gloom  and  depression,  when 
sky  and  mind  were  alike  overcast  and 
the  nervous  tides  were  at  ebb,  I  mournfully 
asked,  '•'■  Shall  I  ever  again  be  young  and 
well  ? "  The  answer  came  like  a  soft,  cheery, 
inward  voice,  "  I  shall  never  be  otherwise 
than  young  and  well."  What  has  a  passing 
cloud  to  do  with  the  eternal  prospects  of  a 
son  and  heir  of  God  ? 

Rev.  Charles  Gordon  Ames. 

Oh,   be  swift  to  love,  make  haste  to  be 
kind. — Amid's  Journal. 


2  74  September  30. 

ATO    man   cometJi    unto   the   Father  but    by 
me. — John  xiv.  6. 

Creator,  yes!  Thy  wisdom  and  Thy  word 
Created   me.     Thou   source    of    life    and 
good  ! 
Thou  spirit  of  my  spirit,  and  my  Lord ! 
Thy  hght,  Thy  love,  in  their  bright  pleni- 
tude. 
Filled  me  with  an  immortal  soul,  to  spring 

O'er  the  abyss  of  death,  and  bade  it  wear 
The  garments  of  eternal  day,  and  wing 
Its    heavenly    flight,     beyond    this    little 

sphere. 
E'en  to  its  source — to  Thee — its  Author 
there ! 

O  thought  ineffable!  O  vision  blessed  ! 
Though  worthless  our  conceptions  all  of 
Thee, 
Yet  shall  Thy  shadowed  image  fill  our  breast, 

And  waft  its  homage  to  Thy  deity. 
God,    thus   alone   my   lowly   thoughts   can 
soar  ; 
Thus  seek  Thy  presence.  Being  wise  and 
good! 

John  Bowring. 


©ctobcc  !♦  275 

A  ND  he  saith  unto  them^   Why  are  ye  fear- 
ful,   O  ye    of  little  faith  1 — Matthew 
viii.  26. 

Have  faith,  though  ne'er  beholding 

The  seed  burst  from  its  tomb, 
Thou  know'st  not  which  may  prosper, 

Or  whether  all  shall  bloom. 
Room  on  the  narrowest  ridges 

The  ripening  grain  shall  find. 
That  the  Lord  of  the  harvest,  coming. 

In  the  harvest  sheaves  may  bind. 
Anna  Shipton. 

HN  earnest  purpose  conquers  all  ob- 
stacles. A  strong  purpose  clothes 
itself  in  power.  .  .  That  soul  of  things 
which  is  found  in  every  combination  of 
human  affairs.  .  .  Ah!  is  not  the  work 
which  stimulates  every  power  of  mind  and 
heart  the  best,  rather  than  the  life  whose 
privileges  require  no  answering  duties  ? 
Lilian  Whiting. 

May  we  be  satisfied  with  nothing  which 
shall  not  have  in  it  something  of  immor- 
tality !  H.  W.  Beecher. 


276  October  2. 

HTHEY  that  be  whole  need  not  a  physician^ 
but  they  that  are  sick.  But  go  ye  and  learn 
what  that  meaneth,  I  will  have  mercy ^  and  not 
sacrifice  :  for  I  am  not  come  to  call  the  right- 
eous^   but  sinners    to   repentance. — Matthew 

ix.  12,  13. 

>\> 

Be  strong  and  wait  !   nor  let  the  strife, 
With  which  the  winds  and  waves  are  rife, 
Disturb  that  sacred  inner  life. 

Anonymous. 

mo  more  in  the  inner  than  in  the  outer 
sphere  did  Christ  come  among  us  as  a 
conqueror,  making  His  appeal  to  force.  We 
were  neither  to  be  consumed  by  the  heat  of 
the  divine  presence,  nor  were  we  to  be 
dazzled  by  its  brightness.  God  was  not  in 
the  storm,  nor  in  the  fire,  nor  in  the  fiood, 
but  He  was  in  the  still,  small  voice. 

AViLLIAM   EWART   GLADSTONE. 

Beauty,  truth,  love,  are  the  realities 
which  abide.  Goodness  has  slowly  proved 
itself  in  the  world — is  every  day  proving 
itself  to  be  that  to  which  reason  tends,  in 
which  it  realizes  itself. 

Mrs.  Humphry  Ward. 


©ctol?er  3,  277 

p\A  UGHTER,  be  of  good  comfort :  thy  faith 
hath  made  thee  whole. — Matthew  ix.  22. 


^f^ELICACY  and  self-respect  are  the  fruits 
-2^  not  so  much  of  intellect  as  of  sensi- 
bility. We  are  considerate  toward  others 
in  proportion  as  our  own  consciousness  gives 
us  iftsight.  H.  T.  Tuckerman. 

If  the  Lord  Jesus  were  here  on  earth  to- 
day, He  would  say  that  intellectual  indolence 
and  moral  carelessness  were  its  chief  faults. 
The  consideration  of  evil  consequences  is 
not  sure  to  make  us  reform,  but  we  need  to 
so  fill  ourselves  with  the  love  of  truth  as  to 
hesitate  in  forming  hasty  judgments  of  our 
fellow-men.  Men  will  always  be  made  bet- 
ter by  becoming  filled  with  devotion  to 
divine  truth,  the  most  solemn  thing  we 
knovv^    anything   about   in    this   world. 

Rev.  E.  W.  Donald,  D.  D. 

The  love  of  God  and  man  is  the  soul  of 
every  outward  duty. 

Richard  Baxter. 


278  ©ctober  4. 

n~^HE  harvest  truly  is  ple?2teous,  but  the  labor- 
ers are  few :     Pray  ye  therefore  the  Lord 
of  the  harvest,  that  he  will  send  forth  laborers 
into  his  harvest. — Matthew  ix.  37,  38. 


Life  is  a  well-strung  lyre, 

And  I  a  wandering  note, 
Struck  from   its   cunning  chords,    and  left 
alone 

A  moment  in  the  quivering  air  to  float: 
Then,  without  echo,  die. 
And  upward  from  this  earthly  jarring  fly, 
To  form  a  truer  note  above. 
In  the  great  song  of  joy  and  love, 
The  never  ending,  never  jarring  song 
Of  the  immortal  throng. 
Sung  to  the  praise  of  Him 
Who  is  at  once  its  leader  and  its  theme. 
My  Christ,  my  King,  my  God  ! 

BONAR. 

♦ff  N  all  matters  of  eternal  truth,  the  soul  is 
■I  before  the  intellect  ;  the  things  of  God 
are  spiritually  discerned.  You  know  truth 
by  being  true  ;  you  recognize  God  by  being 
like  Him.  F.  W.  Robertson. 


©ctober  5.  279 

pOR  it  IS  7iot  ye  that  speak,  but  the  Spirit 
of  your  Father  which  speaketh  in  you. — 
Matthew  x.  20. 

W^O  not  let  us  waste  our  time  in  wishing 
^^  that  we  were  like  others — that  we  had 
the  things  God  has  given  them  :  we  cannot 
have  these.  Each  must  use  v/hat  God  has 
given  to  himself. 

Let  us  be  content  to  live  day  by  day  as 
God  leads  us,  making  good  use  of  every 
moment,  without  looking  beyond  it. 

Fenelon. 
•i- 

Life  is  the  tossing  ark, 

And  I  the  wandering  dove, 
Resting  to-day  'mid  clouds  and  waters  dark, 

To-morrow  in  my  peaceful  olive  grove 
Returning  in  glad  haste 
Across  time's  billowy  waste, 
For  evermore  to  rest 
Upon  the  faithful  breast 
Of  Him  who  is  my  King, 
My  Christ,  my  God. 

BONAR. 


28o  ©ctobcr  6. 

T/f/HA  T  I  tell  you  in  darkness,  that  speak  ye 
in  light  J  and  what  ye  hear  in  the  car, 
thai  preach  ye  upon  the  housetops. — Matthew 
X.  27. 

My  heart  is  resting,  O  my  God  ! 

I  will  give  thanks  and  sing; 
My  heart  is  at  the  secret  source 

Of  every  precious  thing; 
And  a  new  song  is  in  my  mouth 

To  long  loved  music  set  ; 
Glory  to  Thee  for  all  the  grace 

I  have  not  tasted  yet. 

Anna  L.  Waring. 


XIFE  passes,  riches  fly  away,  popularity 
is  fickle,  the  senses  decay,  the  world 
changes,  friends  die.  One  alone  is  true  to 
us;  One  alone  can  be  true;  One  alone  can 
be  all  things  to  us;  One  alone  can  supply 
our  need. 

John  Henry  Newman. 


Holiness  is  an  unselfing  of  ourselves. 
Frederick  W.  Faber. 


©ctober  7.  281 

T-JE  that  taketh  not  his  cfosSy  and  followeth 
after   i?ie,  is    not  worthy  of  me. — Mat- 
thew X.  38. 

XEAVE    all   around  thee  where  God  is 
not,  and  where  thou  wilt  find  no  help 
from  Him.  Saint  Anselm. 

Perfection  consists  not  in  doing  extraor- 
dinar)^  things,  but  in  doing  ordinary  things 
extraordinarily  well.  Neglect  nothing:  the 
most  trivial  action  may  be  performed  to 
God.  If  Christian  charity  be  in  your  heart, 
your  whole  life  may  be  a  continual  exercise 
of  it. 

La  Mere  Angelique. 

The  real  way  of  profiting  by  the  humilia- 
tion of  one's  own  faults  is  to  face  them  in 
their  true  hideousness,  without  ceasing  to 
hope  in  God,  while  hoping  nothing  from 
self.  Fenelon. 

The  measure  of  our  success  is  in  propor- 
tion as  we  satisfy  our  God. 

Krummacher. 


2  82  ©ctober  6. 

TJ/HOSOEVER  he  be  of  you  that  for  saketh 
not  all  that  he  hath,  he  cannot  be  my  dis- 
ciple.— Luke  xiv.  2,2,. 


His  trade  He  plied,  a  Carpenter,  and  built 

Doors,  where  folks  come  and   go,  unto  this 
hour. 

Not  wotting  how  the  hands  which  wrought 
their  doors 

Unbarred  Death's  gate  by  Love's  high  sac- 
rifice. 

Edwin  Ajinold. 


XT' 


be  true  to  yourself  is  to  knov/  that 
you  were  made  for  virtue,  made  for  integ- 
rity, made  to  keep  your  body  in  sanctifica- 
tion  and  honor,  made  a  child  of  God  and  an 
heir  to  heaven;  and  that  to  be  either  indo- 
lent or  wicked,  to  either  waste  your  own 
blessings,  like  the  beasts  which  perish,  or 
to  add  to  the  sin  and  sorrow  of  others,  like 
the  evil  spirits  of  the  pit,  is  to  personate 
another,  not  yourself,  and  to  give  the  lie 
to  your  nature   and  to  your  God, 

Canon  Farrar. 


©ctobec  9»  283 

pRAISING    God,   and  having  favor   with 

all  the  people.     And  the  Lord  added  to 

the  chttrch  daily  such  as  should  be  saved. — Acts 

ii.  47. 

•I- 

TjpVERYTHING  has  two  handles:  the 
^^  one  by  which  it  may  be  borne,  the 
other  by  which  it  may  not.  If  your  brother 
acts  unjustly,  do  not  lay  hold  of  the  act  by 
that  handle  wherein  he  acts  unjustly,  for 
this  is  the  handle  which  cannot  be  borne; 
but  lay  hold  of  the  other,  that  he  is  your 
brother,  .  .  .  and  you  will  lay  hold  of  the 
thing  by  that  handle  by  which  it  can  be 
borne.  Epictetus. 

We  do  pray  for  mercy: 
And  that  same  prayer  doth  teach  us  all  to 

render 
The  deeds  of  mercy. 

William  Shakspeare. 

And  all  is  well,  tho'  faith  and  form 
Be  sunder'd  in  the  night  of  fear  : 
Well  roars  the  storm  to  those  that  hear 

A  deeper  voice  across  the  storm. 

Alfred  Tennyson. 


284  ©ctobec  10. 

'^UDGE  not  according  to  the  appeara7ice^  but 
7//^.?  righteous  judgme7it. — John  vii.  24. 


fT  were  a  thing  worth  looking  into  to 
know  the  reason  why  men  are  so  gen- 
erally willing,  in  point  of  religion,  to  cast 
themselves  into  other  men's  arms,  and  leav- 
ing their  own  reason,  rely  so  much  upon 
another  man's.  .  .  Thankfully  to  entertain 
the  advice  of  others,  to  give  it  its  due,  and 
ingenuously  to  prefer  it  before  our  own  if 
it  deserve  it:  this  is  that  gracious  virtue  of 
modesty  ;  but  altogether  to  mistrust  and 
relinquish  our  own  faculties,  and  commend 
ourselves  to  others  :  this  is  nothing  but 
poverty   of   spirit   and    indiscretion. 

John  Hales. 

Weakness  never  needs  be  falseness: 
Truth  is  truth  in  each  degree, 

Thunderpealed  by  God  to  nature, 
Whispered  by  my  soul  to  me. 

Robert  Browning. 

Truth  is  eclipsed  often,  and  it  sets  for  a 
night:  but  is  it  turned  aside  from  its  eter- 
nal path  ?  J.  F.  W.  Ware. 


©ctobec  II.  285 

'T^AKE  my  yoke  upon  you^  and  learn  of  vie  j 
for  I  a7n  meek  and  lowly  i?t  heart :  and  ye 
shall  find  rest  U7ito  your  souls. — Matthew 
xi.  29. 

The  law  that  keeps 
This  planet  in  her  path  around  the  sun 
Keeps  all  her  sister  planets,  too,  in  theirs, 
And  all  other  shining  hosts  of  heaven. 
All  worlds,   all   times,  are  under  that   one 

law  ; 
For  what  binds  one,  binds  all.     So  all  thy 

sons 
And     daughters,     clothed    in    light — hosts 

brighter  far 
Than  suns  and  planets — spiritual  hosts, 
Whose  glory  is  their  goodness — have    one 

law. 
The   perfect   law   of    love,   to    guide  them 

through 
All  worlds,  all  time.     Thy  kingdom,  Lord, 

is  one. 
Life,    death,    earth,    heaven,    eternity,  and 

time 
Lie  all  within  it;  and  what  blesses  now 
Must    ever    bless, — Love  of  things  tnu  and 

right.  John  Pierpont. 


286  ©ctober  12. 

J-JE  that  is  not  with  me  is  against  me  j  a?id 
he  that  gathereth  not  with  7ne  scattereth 
abroad. — Matthew  xii.  30. 

WET  us  examine  this  matter  with  sin- 
^^  cerity,  and  we  shall  agree  that  our 
distresses  chiefly  arise  from  ourselves.  It 
is  virtue  alone  which  can  render  us  superior 
to  Fortune;  we  quit  her  standard,  and  the 
combat  is  no  longer  equal.  Fortune  mocks 
us;  she  turns  us  on  her  wheel:  she  raises 
and  abases  us  at  her  pleasure,  but  her  power 
is  founded  on  our  weakness.  This  is  an 
old-rooted  evil,  but  it  is  not  incurable  : 
there  is  nothing  a  firm  and  elevated  mind 
cannot  accomplish.  The  discourse  of  the 
wise  and  the  study  of  good  books  are  the 
best  remedies  I  know  of  :  but  to  these  we 
must  join  the  consent  of  the  soul,  without 
which  the  best  advice  will  be  useless. 

Francesco  Petrarch. 

I  FEEL  within  me 
A  peace  above  all  earthly  dignities, 
A  still  and  quiet  conscience. 

Shakspeare. 


©ctobec  13.  287 

A  GOOD  man  out  of  the  good  treasure  of  the 
heart  bringeth  forth  good  things. — Mat- 
thew xii.  35. 

HS  it  is  in  the  body,  so  it  is  in  the  mind: 
practice  makes  it  what  it  is,  and  most 
even  of  those  excellences  which  are  looked 
on  as  natural  endowments  will  be  found, 
when  examined  into  more  narrowly,  to  be 
the  product  of  exercise,  and  to  be  raised  to 
that  pitch  only  by  repeated  actions. 

John  Locke. 

There  is  a  saying  of  the  ancient  sages: 

No  noble  human  thought  is  lost, 
However  buried  in  the  dust  of  ages, 

Can  ever  come  to  naught. 
With    kindred    faith,    that   knows    no  base 
dejection, 
Beyond  the  sage's  scope 
I  see,  afar,  the  final  resurrection 
Of  every  glorious  hope. 

J.  G.  Saxe. 
•!- 

Human    strength  in  itself  is  inadequate 

for  life's  sore  needs. 

John  Locke. 


288  October  14. 

^jESC/S  ansivered  him,  saying,  It  is  iviitten, 
^  That  man  shall  not  live  by  bread  alone,  but 
by  every  word  of  God. — Luke  iv.  4. 

Praised  be  thine  active  days, 
And  thy  night-time's  solemn  need, 
When  in  God's  dear  book  we  read, 
**No  night  shall  be  therein." 

Mrs,  Browning. 
4- 
^t  UST  as  you  now  play  a  piece  without 
^  the  music  and  do  not  think  what  notes 
)^ou  strike,  though  once  you  picked  them 
out  by  slow  and  patient  toil ;  so,  if  you  begin 
of  set  purpose,  you  will  learn  the  law  of 
kindness  in  utterance  so  perfectly  that  it 
will  be  second  nature  to  you,  and  make 
more  music  in  your  life  than  all  the  songs 
the  sweetest  voice  has  ever  sung. 

Frances  E.  Willard. 

The  true  disciple  of  Jesus  needs  not  to 
forget  himself  in  order  to  be  cheerful  in  his 
very  innermost  soul.  On  the  contrary,  it  is 
when  he  examines  his  inward  being,  and  his 
relations  to  the  Father  of  all  life,  that  he 
feels  most  happy.  Zschokke. 


©ctober  15.  289 

T^OR  it  is  7vritten^  He  shall  give  his  angels 
charge  over  thee ^  to  keep  thee. — Luke!  v.  10. 

Not  as  I  will.,  but  as  thou  wilt. — Matthew 
xxvi.  39. 

For  Life  is  one,  and  in  its  waip  and  woof 
There  runs  a  thread  of  gold  that  glitters 

fair, 
And   sometimes  in  the  pattern   shows  most 

sweet 
When  there  are  somber  colors.     It  is  true 
That  we  have  wept.     But   oh!  this  thread 

of  gold. 
We  would  not  have  it  tarnish;  let  us  turn 
Oft  and  look  back  upon  the  wondrous  web, 
And  when  it  shineth  sometime  we  shall  know 
That  memory  is  possession. 

Jean  Ingelow. 

♦JTT  is  by  the  passion  of  sympathy  that  we 
■■  enter  into  the  concerns  of  others.  .  . 
For  sympathy  must  be  considered  as  a  sort 
of  substitution  by  which  we  are  put  into  the 
place  of  another  man,  and  affected  in  a 
good  measure  as  he  is  affected. 

Edmund  Burke. 


290  ©ctober  16. 

yjJVD  when  he  saw  their  faith,  he  said  tinto 
him,  Ma?i,  thy  sins  are  forgiven  thee. — 
Luke  v.  20. 

And  the  peace  of  God,  which  passeth  all  un- 
derstanding, shall  keep  your  hearts  and  mi?ids 
through  Christ  Jesus. — Philippians  iv.  7. 

►^ 

Shake  off  the  melancholy  chain, 
Por  God  created  all  to  bless. 

Thomas  Chatterton. 

/fNFTENTIMES  we  look  forward  with 
Vi^  forebodings  to  the  time  of  old  age, 
forgetful  that  at  eventide  it  shall  be  light. 
To  many  saints,  old  age  is  the  choicest 
season  of  their  lives.  A  balmier  air  fans 
the  mariner's  cheek  as  he  nears  the  shores 
of  immortality;  fewer  waves  ruffle  his  sea; 
quiet  reigns,  deep,  still,  and  solemn.  .  . 
The  pilgrims  have  reached  the  land  of 
Beulah,  that  happy  country  whose  days  are 
as  the  days  of  heaven  upon  the  earth.  .  . 
Some  dwell  here  for  years,  and  others  come 
to  it  but  a  few  hours  before  their  departure, 
but  it  is  an  Eden  on  earth. 

Rev.  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


©ctobec  17.  291 

'DLESSED  are  ye  that  hu7iger  7iow:  for  ye 
shall  be  filled.     Blessed  are  ye  that  weep 
now  :  for  ye  shall  laugh. — Luke  vi.  21. 

Death  cannot  come  to   him  untimely  who 

is  fit  to  die  : 
The   less  of  this   cold   world,  the  more  of 

heaven  ; 
The  briefer  life,  the  earlier  immortality. 

H.    H.    MiLMAN. 

'^^HERE'S  things  go  on  in  the  soul,  and 
^^  times  when  feelings  come  into  you  like 
a  mighty  rushing  wind,  as  the  Scripture 
says,  and  part  your  life  in  two  a'most,  so 
as  you  look  back  on  yourself  as  if  you  was 
somebody  else.  George  Eliot. 

Ripe  fruits  of  choice  experience  are 
gathered  as  the  report  of  life's  evening,  and 
the  soul  prepares  itself  for  rest. 

Rev.  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


Bear  ye  one  another's  burdens,  and  so 
fulfill  the  law  of  Christ. — Galatians  vi.  2. 


292  ©ctoder  IS. 

J^OR  whosoever  shall  give  you  a  cup  of  water 
to  drink  in  my  name,  because  ye  belotig  to 
Christ,  verily  I  say  unto  you,  he  shall  not  lose  his 
reward. — Mark  ix.  41. 


'JT'HE  greatest  of  painters  only  once 
Vi^  painted  a  mysteriously  divine  child  : 
he  couldn't  have  told  how  he  did  it,  and  we 
can't  tell  why  we  feel  it  to  be  divine.  I 
think  there  are  stores  laid  up  in  human 
nature  that  our  understandings  can  make 
no  complete  inventory  of. 

George  Eliot. 

True  happiness  is  not  the  growth  of  earth  ; 
The  soil  is  fruitless,  if  you  seek  it  there: 
'Tis  an  exotic  of  celestial  birth. 

And  never  blooms  but  in  celestial  air. 
Sweet    plant   of    Paradise  !    its    seeds   are 
sown 
In,  here  and  there,  a  breast  of  heavenly 
mold  ; 
It  rises  slow  and  buds,  but  ne'er  was  known 
To  blossom  here — the  climate  is  too  cold. 
R.  B.  Sheridan. 


©ctober  \9,  293 

Z?  UT  I  say  tmto  you  which  hear,  Love  your 
efie?mes,  do  good  to  them  which  hate  you. 
Bless  them  that  curse  you,  and  pray  for  them 
which  despitefully  use  you. — Luke  vi.  27-28. 


Have  hope!  though  clouds  environ  round 
And  gladness  hides  her  face  in  scorn, 

Put  thou  the  shadow  from  thy  brow, 
No  night  but  has  its  morn. 

Have  faith!  where'er  thy  bark  is  driven, 
The  calm's  disport,  the  tempest's  mirth, 

Know  this,  God  rules  the  hosts  of  heaven, 
The  inhabitants  of  earth. 

Have  love  !  not  love  for  one, 

But  man,  as  man,  thy  brother  call; 

And  scatter,  like  the  circling  sun, 
Thy  charities  on  all. 

Schiller. 

®H  !  what  does  not  God  give  to  man  in 
mercy  when  tribulation  itself  is  sent  to 
him  as  a  blessing. 

St.  Augustine. 


294  ©ctober  20» 

^HEN  they  that  gladly  received  his  word  were 
baptized:    afid  the  same   day   there   were 
added  unto  them  about  three  thousand  souls, 

A?id  they  continued  stcdfastly  in  the  apostles' 
doctrine  and  fellowships  and  in  hreakiiig  of 
bread,  and  in  prayers. — Acts  ii.  41-42. 

Not    myself,  but   the  truth    that   in  life  I 
have  spoken, 
Not  myself,  but   the   seed  that  in  life  I 
have  sown; 
Shall   pass    on  to   ages — all  about   me  for- 
gotten. 
Save  the  truth  I  have  spoken,  the  things 
I  have  done. 

HORATIUS    BONAR. 

►^ 

H  NOBLE  career  depends  on  the  treat- 
ment given  to  the  infant  ideas  that 
are  born  in  the  soul.  So  the  thoughts 
which  we  harbor  within  us,  and  which  go 
out  through  the  doors  of  our  mouths  and 
our  hands,  determine  our  real  character. 
One  of  the  highest  of  spiritual  luxuries  is 
the  enjoyment  of  pure  and  exhilarating  and 

sublime  thoughts. 

Theodore  L.  Cuyler. 


©ctober  2U  295 

J/ERIL  Y  I  say  unto  you,   Whosoeve?-  shall 

not  receive  the  kingdo7n  of  God  as  a  little 

child,  he  shall  not  enter  therein. — Mark  x.  15. 

fF  a  new  building  had  fallen  dov/n  and  he 
had  been  told  that  this  was  a  divine 
jndgment,  he  would  have  said,  ''May  be; 
but  the  bearing  o'  the  roof  and  walls  wasn't 
right,  else  it  wouldn't  ha'  come  down." 

George  Eliot. 
►J* 

MAN-like  it  is  to  fall  into  sin, 
Fiend-like  is  it  to  dwell  therein, 
Christ-like  is  it  for  sin  to  grieve, 
God-like  is  it  all  sin  to  leave. 

From  the  German. 

Yield  all  the  days  their  due, 
But  when  the  evening  light  is  lost  or  dim, 
Commune  with  your  own    spirit,  and   with 

Him  ! 
Restore   your   soul    v/ith    stillness   as   is 

meet. 
And  when  the  sun  bids  forth,  haste  not  to 

show 
Your  strength,  but  kneel    for  blessing  ere 

you  go.  Thomas  Ashe. 


296  ©ctober  22. 

/jND  he  answered  and  said  unto  them^  My 
mother  and  my  brethren  are  these  which 
hear  the  word  of  God^  and  do  it. — Luke  viii. 
21. 

'^T'HERE  are  chords  in  the  human  heart 
^^  which  are  only  struck  by  accident; 
which  will  remain  mute  and  senseless  to 
appeals  the  most  passionate  and  earnest, 
and  respond  at  last  to  the  slightest  casual 
touch.  Charles  Dickens. 


The  fall  thou  darest  to  despise, 
May  be  the  angel's  slackened  hand 
Has  suffered  it  that  he  may  rise 
And  take  a  firmer,  surer  stand; 
Or,  trusting  less  to  earthly  things, 
May  henceforth  learn  to  use  his  wings. 


And  judge  none  lost,  but  wait  to  see 
With  hopeful  pity,  not  disdain. 
The  depth  of  the  abyss  may  be 
The  measure  of  the  height  of  pain, 
And  love  and  glory  that  may  raise 
This  soul  to  God  in  after  days. 

Adelaide  A.  Procter. 


©ctoljer  23.  297 

JJ/HY  call  ye   me,  Lord,  Lord,  and  do  not 
the  thifigs  which  /  say  ? — Luke  vi.  46. 


'^^IME  passes.  .  .  Time,  the  gray,  calm 
^^  satirist  whose  sad  smile  seems  to  say, 
"  Look,  O  man,  at  the  vanity  of  the  objects 
you  pursue  and  of  yourself  who  pursues 
them." 

LiFE  in  every  shape  should  be  precious  to 
us,  for  the  same  reason  that  the  Turks  care- 
fully collect  every  scrap  of  paper,  because 
the  name  of  God  may  be  written  upon  it. 

Jean  Paul. 

Shall  we  serve  Heaven 

With  less  respect  than  we  do  minister 

To  our  gross  selves  ? 

Shakspeare. 

Our  little  systems  have  their  day  : 
They  have  their  day  and  cease  to  be  : 
They  are  but  broken  lights  of  Thee, 

And  Thou,  O  Lord,  art  more  than  they. 
Alfred  Tennyson. 


298  ©ctobeu  24, 

T^O  W  think  ye  ?   if  a  man  have  an  hundred 

sheep^  and  one  of  them  be  gone  astray^  doth 

he  not  leave  the  ninety  and  nine,  and  goeth  into 

the  mountains,  and  seeketh  that  which  is  gone 

astray? — Matthew  xviii.  12. 


Hast  thou  not  learned  what  thou  art  often 
told, 
A  truth  still  sacred,  and  believed  of  old, 
That  no   success   attends   our   spears   and 
swords 
Unblest,     and    that    the    battle    is    the 
Lord's  ? 

Wm.  Cow  per. 

BUT  it  is  given  to  us  sometimes  even  in 
our  everyday  life  to  witness  the  saving 
influence  of  a  noble  nature,  the  divine  effi- 
cacy of  rescue  that  may  lie  in  a  self-subdu- 
ing act  of  fellowship. 

George  Eliot. 

Trouble  is  hard  to  bear,  is  it  not  ?  Hov/ 
can  we  live  and  think  that  anyone  has 
trouble — and  we  could  help  them,  and  never 
try  ?  George  Eliot. 


©ctober  25.  299 

jy^ERIL  V I  say  untoyoit^  Whatsoever  ye  shall 
bind  on  earth  shall  be  bound  m  heaven.  — 
Matthew  xviii.  18. 


'^^HE  finest  threads,  such  as  no  eye  sees, 
VJ*'  if  bound  cunningly  about  the  sensitive 
flesh,  so  that  the  movement  to  break  them 
would  bring  torture,  may  make  a  worse 
bondage   than   any  fetters. 

George  Eliot. 

Ever  by  day  and  night,  under  the  sun 
and  under  the  stars,  climbing  the  dusty 
hills,  and  toiling  along  the  weary  plains, 
journeying  by  sea,  coming  and  going,  so 
strangely,  to  meet  and  to  act  and  react  on 
one  another,  move  all  we  restless  travelers 
through  the  pilgrimage  of  life. 

Charles  Dickens. 


Grant  us  that  love  of  truth  sublime, 
That  love  of  goodness  and  of  Thee, 

Which  makes  Thy  children,  in  all  time, 
To  share  Thine  own  eternity. 

John  Pierpont. 


300  ©ctober  26» 

J^UT  7nany  that  a7'e  first  shall  be  last ;  and 
the  last  shall  be  first. — Matthew  xix.  30. 


Teach  me  Thy  love  to  know, 
That  this  new  light  which  now  I  see 

May  both  the  work  and  workman  show; 
Then  by  a  sunbeam  I  will  climb  to  Thee. 
George  Herbert. 


H^RAYER  may  not  bring  money,  but  it 
IIV  brings  us  what  no  money  can  buy — a 
power  to  keep  from  sin,  and  to  be  content 
with  God's  will,  whatever  else  He  may 
send.  George  Eliot. 

That  is  a  deep  and  wide  saying,  that  no 
miracle  can  be  wrought  without  faith — 
without  the  worker's  faith  in  himself,  as 
well  as  the  recipient's  faith  in  him  ;  and  the 
greater  part  of  the  worker's  faith  in  himself 
is  made  up  of  the  faith  that  others  believe 
in  him.  George  Eliot. 

We  see  flowers  of  good  blooming  in  foul 
places,  often.  Thackeray. 


©cto&er  27.  3*^1 

/IS  it  is  written  in  the  p7'ophets^   Behold  I 

send  ??iy  messenger  before  thy  face,  which 

shall  prepare  thy  way  before  thee. — Mark  i.  2. 

4- 

Sow  ye  beside  all  waters, 

With  a  blessing  and  a  prayer  ; 

Name  Him  whose  hand  upholds  thee. 
And  sow  thou  every  where. 

Anna  Shipton. 

fN  all  thy  actions  think  God  sees  thee, 
and  in  all  His  actions  labor  to  see  Him  ; 
that  will  make  thee  fear  Him,  this  will  move 
thee  to  love  Him  ;  the  fear  of  God  is  the 
beginjiing  of  knowledge,  and  the  knowl- 
edge of  God  is  the  perfection  of  love. 

John  Quarles. 

No,  I  cannot  catch  the  sunbeams  of  the 
soul  always.  The  Beloved  comes  and  talks 
to  me  most  sweetly  when  I  am  neither  pre- 
pared to  write  nor  reproduce  what  he  says. 
My  soul,  my  soul,  it  does  thee  good  to  hear 
what  is  best  and  deepest,  and  not  be  able  to 
say  it  again. 

Protap  Chunder  Mozoomdar, 


2,02  October  28. 

n^HE  wind  bloweth  where  it  listeth,  and  thou 
hearest  the  sound  the7'eof,  but  canst  not  tell 
whence  it  cometh,  and  whither  it  goeth:  so  is  every 
07ie  that  is  born  of  the  Spirit. — John  iii.  8. 
^< 
Father!  Thou  must  lead. 
Do  Thou  then  breathe  such  thoughts  into 

my  mind, 
By  which  such  virtue  may  in  me  be  bred, 
That  in  Thy  holy  footsteps  I  may  tread. 
The  fetters  of  my  tongue  do  Thou  unbind, 
That  I  may  have  the  power  to  sing  to  Thee, 
And  sound  Thy  praises  everlastingly  ! 

Michael  Angelo. 

'^HE  Word  of  God— the  truth,  the  rea- 
Wl/  son,  the  wisdom,  by  which  men  and 
angels  live — abideth  forever.  That  Word  is 
in  the  ancient  books  ;  it  is  in  the  modern 
mind  ;  it  is  hidden  in  our  hearts  ;  it  is  old 
as  eternity  ;  it  is  young  as  the  morning. 
Rev.   Charles  Gordon  Ames. 

We  do  highest  honors  to  all  great  souls, 
not  by  following  them,  but  by  following 
what  they  followed. 

Rev.  Charles  Gordon  Ames. 


©ctober  29.  3'=>3 

pf/HEREFORE  we   labor,    that,    whether 
present  or  absent,  we  may  be  accepted  of 
him. — 2  Corinthians  v.  9. 


Upon  Thy  word  I  rest 

So  strong,  so  sure; 
So  full  of  comfort  blest, 
So  sweet,  so  pure — 
The  v/ord   that   changeth  not,   that  faileth 

never! 
My  King,  I  rest  upon  Thy  word  forever, 
Francis  Ridley  Havergal. 


'^^HERE  is  music  sometimes  in  an  old 
V«^  phrase.  It  has  a  charm  for  the  ear 
which  is  heightened  by  long  association. 
Such  phrases  often  nestle  into  the  heart.  .  . 
Let  us  keep  the  phrases  that  are  still  full  of 
life  and  thought,  but  only  these. — Christian 
Register. 

Try  to  put  well  in  practice  what  you 
already  know;  in  so  doing  you  will,  in  good 
time,  discover  many  hidden  things. — Chris- 
tian Register. 


3^4  ©ctober  30, 

T^OR  God  sent  not  his  Son  into  the  world  to 
condemn    the  world ;    but  that  the  world 
through  him  7night  be  saved. — John   iii.  17. 


HRE  we  living  out  God's  thought  for  us; 
what  He  had  in  view  when  He  made  us 
and  sent  us  hither  ?  Are  we  doing  in  thi-s 
world  what  He  wants  us  to  do  ?  These  are 
important  questions;  and  we  should  not 
stop  short  of  honest  answer  to  them,  for  we 
shall  have  to  account  to  God  at  the  end  for 
the  way  we  have  fulfilled  our  mission. 

Rev.  J.  R.  Miller,  D.  D. 


Living 
Is  but  the  bearing,  the  enduring, 
The  clashing  of  the  hammer:  the  cutting, 
The  straining  of  the  strings. 
The  growth  of  harmony's  pure  wings; 
Life  is  the  tuning-time,  complete 
Alone  when  every  chord  is  sweet 
Through  sacrifice,  having  passed  the  strife. 

Geo  Klingle. 


©ctober  31.  3^5 

pOR  he  7vhom  God  hath  sent  speaketh  the 
words  of  God  ;  for  God giveth  not  the  spirit 
by  measure  unto  him.  The  Father  loveth  the 
Son,  and  hath  given  ail  things  into  his  hand.  — ■ 
John  iii.  34,  35. 

With  wide-embracing  love 
Thy  spirit  animates  eternal  years, 

Pervades  and  broods  above, 
Changes,   sustains,    dissolves,    creates,    and 
rears. 

Emily  Bronte. 
►I- 

♦(fT  is  out  of  silence  that  all  the  marvelous 
■■  things  of  human  action,  all  the  splendid 
things  of  human  courage,  all  the  sublime 
offerings  of  human  faith,  have  sprung. 
When  the  great  tree  falls  in  a  sudden  storm, 
we  find  that,  for  all  its  external  bravery,  it 
was  decayed  and  weak  within.  Societies, 
governments,  nations,  fall  when  the  secret 
chambers  of  individual  hearts  grow  weak. 
But  those  secret  chambers  cannot  be  filled 
from  the  world  outside.  They  can  only  be 
filled  from  within,  at  the  cisterns  of  Infinite 
Silence. — Ch  ristia  n  Register. 


$06  iFlovember  I, 

r^AST  thy  bread  upon  the  waters  ;  for  thou 
shalt  find  it  after    many   days. — Eccle- 
SIASTES  xi.   I. 

Blest  be  Thy  love,  dear  Lord, 
That  taught  us  this  sweet  way, 

Only  to  love  Thee  for  Thyself, 
And  for  that  love  obey. 

J.   Austen. 

'JT'HE  world  rolls  on,  let  what  will  be  hap- 
^i^  pening  to  the  individuals  who  occupy 
it.  .  .  While  the  world  and  life  roll  on  and 
on,  the  feeble  reason  of  the  child  of  Provi- 
dence may  be  at  times  overpowered  by 
the  vastness  of  the  system  amid  which  he 
lives  ;  but  his  faith  will  smile  upon  his  fear, 
rebuke  him  for  averting  his  eyes,  and  inspire 
him  with  the  thought,  "Nothing  can  crush 
me,  for  I  am  made  for  eternity.  I  will  do, 
suffer,  and  enjoy  as  my  Father  wills  ;  and 
let  the  world    and    life    roll    on  ! " 

Harriet  Martineau. 

The  best  things   are  possible,  if  we  will 
but  live  for  the  best. 

Rev.  Chas.  G.  Ames. 


•fflovembec  2.  307 

O/JVG  ^mto  the  Lord  j  for  he  hath  done  excel- 
lent things  ;  this  is  knoivn  in  all  the  earth. 

— Isaiah  xii.  5. 

►J- 

Enough,  if  something  from  our  hands  have 

pov/er 
To  live,  and  act,  and  serve  the  future  hour; 
And  if,  as  toward  the  silent  tomb  we  go, 
Through    love,    through   hope,   and   faith's 

transcendent  dower 
We  feel  that  we  are  greater  than  we  know. 
Wm.  Wordsworth. 

'^'HE  great  use  of  intercourse  with  other 
^i^  minds  is  to  stir  up  our  own,  to  whet  our 
appetite  for  truth,  to  carry  our  thoughts  be- 
yond the  old  track. 

Wm.   Ellery  Channing. 

A  CHILD  of  God  should  be  a  visible  beati- 
tude   for   joy  and    happiness,  and  a  living 
doxology  for  gratitude  and  adoration. 
Rev.  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 

The  chariot  of  God's  providence  runneth 
not  upon  broken  wheels. 

Rutherford. 


3^8  IRovembcr  3, 

/  ORD^   thou  ivilt  ordain  peace  for  us  :  for 
thou  also  hast  wrought  all  our  works  in  us. 
— Isaiah  xxvi.  12. 

**A  LITTLE  while"   to  sow   the    seed    with 

weeping, 
Then  bind  the  sheaves  and  sing  the  harvest 

song. 

HORATIUS    BONAR. 


-^^HE  God  who  sitteth  above,  and  pre- 
\^  sides  in  high  authority  over  all  worlds, 
is  mindful  of  man  ;  and  though  at  this 
moment  his  energy  is  felt  in  the  remotest 
provinces  of  creation,  we  may  feel  the  same 
security  in  his  providence  as  if  we  were  the 
objects  of  his  undivided  care.  .  .  That 
though  his  mind  takes  into  his  comprehen- 
sive grasp  immensity  and  all  its  wonders,  I 
am  as  much  known  to  him  as  if  I  were  the 
single  object  of  his  attention  ;  that  he  marks 
all  my  thoughts.  .  .  The  same  God  who  sits 
in  the  highest  heaven,  and  reigns  over  the 
glories  of  the  firmament,  is  at  my  right  hand 
to  give  me  every  breath  v/hich  I  draw,  and 
every  comfort  which  I  enjoy. 

Thomas  Chalmers. 


flopembec  4.  3^9 

C(9  f/ie  last  shall  be  first,  and  the  first  last : 
for  many  be  called,  but  feiv  chosen. 
They  say  unto  him,  Lord,  that  our  eyes  may 
be  opened. — Matthew  xx.  i6,  'i>Z- 

HLL  true  Work  is  sacred;  in  all  true 
Work,  were  it  but  true  hand-labor, 
there  is  something  of  divineness.  Labor, 
wide  as  the  Earth,  has  its  summit  in  Heaven. 
Sweat  of  the  brow;  and  up  from  that  to 
sweat  of  the  brain,  sweat  of  the  heart; 
which  includes  all  Kepler  calculations, 
Newton  meditations,  all  sciences,  all  spoken 
epics,  all  acted  heroisms,  martyrdoms — up 
to  that  '*  Agony  of  bloody  sweat,"  which 
all  men  have  called  divine  !  Oh,  brother  !  if 
this  is  not  **  worship,"  then,  I  say,  the  more 
pity  for  worship  ;  for  this  is  the  noblest 
thing  yet  discovered  under  God's  sky!  Who 
art  thou  that  complainest  of  thy  life  of  toil? 
Complain  not.  Thomas  Carlyle, 

Do  not  despond  because  your  means  of 
doing  good  appear  trifling  and  insignificant, 
for  though  one  soweth  and  another  reapeth, 
yet  it  is  God  who  giveth  the  increase. 

Jean  Ingelow. 


3IO  IRovembec  5. 

TJ/HEREFORE,  even  as  the  Holy  Ghost 
saith, 

To-day  ye  shall  hear  his  voice, 

Hardefi  not  yoicr  hearts,  as  in  the  provoca- 
tion. 

Like  as  in  the  day  of  the  te^nptatioji  i?t  the 
wilderness, 

Wherewith  your  fathers  tempted  me  by 
proving  me, 

And  saw  my  works  forty  years. — (Revised 
Version)  Hebrews  iii.  7,  8,  9. 


'^^HERE  is  but  one  v/ay  in  which  man 
Vi^  can  ever  help  God — that  is,  by  letting 
God  help  him:  and  there  is  no  way  in  which 
His  name  is  more  guiltily  taken  in  vain, 
than  by  calling  the  abandonment  of  our 
own  work  the  performance  of  His. 

John  Ruskin. 

If  life,  like  the  olive,  is  a  bitter  fruit, 
then  grasp  both  with  the  press,  and  they 
will  afford  the  sweetest  oil. 

J.  P.  Richter. 


'THRUST ye  in  the  Lord  forever;  for  in  the 
Lord  Jehovah   is   everlasting   strength. — 
Isaiah  xxvi.  4. 

One  by  one  thy  duties  wait  thee  ; 

Let  thy  whole  strength  go  to  each, 
Let  no  future  dreams  elate  thee, 

Learn  thou  first  what  these  can  teach. 
Adelaide  A.  Procter. 


♦ITT  is  not  improbable  that  no  man  ever 
■I  had  a  kind  action  done  to  him  who  did 
not  in  consequence  commit  a  sin  less  than  he 
otherwise  would  have  done.  .  .  There  are 
few  gifts  more  precious  to  a  soul  than  to 
make  its  sins  fewer.  It  is  in  our  power  to 
do  this  almost  daily,  and  sometimes  often  in 
a  day.  Another  work,  which  our  kindness 
does  in  the  hearts  of  others,  is  to  encour- 
age them  in  their  efforts  after  good. 

Anonymous. 

We   should  follow   Providence,   and    not 
attempt  to  force  it,  for  that  often  proves 
best  for  us  which  was  least  our  own  doing. 
Matthew  Henry. 


312  IRovembcr  7. 

pOR  both  he  that  sanctifieth   and  they  that 
are  sanctified  are  all  of  one  :  for  which 

cause  he  is  not  ashamed  to  call  them  brethren, 

saying, 

I  ivill  declare  thy  name  unto  my  brethren, 
In  the  midst  of  the  congregation  ivill  I  sing 

thy  praise. — (Revised  Version)  Hebrews  ii. 

II-I2. 

-I* 

^JfORROW  sobers  us,  and  makes  the 
*^  mind  genial.  And  in  sorrow  we  love 
and  trust  our  friends  more  tenderly,  and 
the  dead  becom.e  dearer  to  us.  And  just  as 
the  stars  shine  out  in  the  night,  so  there  are 
blessed  faces  that  look  at  us  in  our  grief, 
though  before  their  features  were  fading 
from  our  recollection.  Suffering!  Let  no 
man  dread  it  too  much,  because  it  is  good 
for  him,  and  it  will  help  to  make  him  sure  of 
his  being  immortal.  .  .  And  it  is  in  sor- 
row— the  night  of  the  soul — that  we  see 
farthest,  and  know  ourselves  natives  of 
infinity  and  sons  and  daughters  of  the  most 
high.  — Euthanasy. 

Desire    earnestly   the    greater   gifts. — i 
Corinthians  xii.  i8. 


Bopcmbcc  8*  3^3 

A  GOOD  7iame  is  better  than  precious  oint- 
ment.  ECCLESIASTES  vii.    I. 


/THREAT  things  never  do  really  happen 
\I^  to  anyone;  that  is,  the  great  things 
always  come  in  shoals  of  countless  little 
things,  which  look  like  insignificant  atoms 
as  we  pass  through  them,  and  only  seem  a 
shoal  when  we  have  passed  beyond  them. 
When  the  angel  set  St.  Peter  free  from 
prison,  to  St.  Peter  it  seemed  just  girding 
on  his  garments,  and  putting  on  his  shoes, 
and  stepping  through  an  open  door,  as  he 
might  do  any  day.  It  was  only  when  the 
angel  had  left  that  he  saw  what  a  wonder- 
fully great  thing  had  happened  to  him. 

Mrs.  Charles. 


Howe'er  it  be,  it  seems  to  me, 

'Tis  only  noble  to  be  good. 
Kind  hearts  are  more  than  coronets, 

And  simple  faith  than  Norman  blood. 
Alfred  Tennyson. 


HTHEREFORE   every   scj'ibe   which    is   in- 
structed unto  the  kingdom  of  heaven^  is  like 

unto   a    man    that  is   an    householder,    which 

bringeth  forth  out  of  his  treasure  things  ne7v 

and  old. — Matthew  xiii.  52. 
►I- 

Leave  me,  O  Love,  which  reachest  but  to 
dust. 

And  thou,  my  mind,  aspire  to  higher  things; 

Grow  rich  in  that  which  never  taketh  rust: 

Whatever  fades  but  fading  pleasure  brings. 

Draw    in   thy  beams,  and   humble   all    thy 
might 

To  that  sweet  yok^  where  lasting  freedoms 
be; 

Which  breaks  the  clouds,  and   opens  forth 
the  light 

That  doth  both  shine  and  give  us  sight  to 
see! 

Oh,  take    fast   hold;  let  that  light   be   thy 
guide 

In  this  small  course  which  birth  draws  out 
to  death; 

And  think  how  ill  becometh  him  to  slide 

V/ho  seeketh  heaven  and  comes  of  heavenly 
breath. 

Sir  Philip  Sidney. 


November  10,  3^5 

ZXS"  that  soweth  the  good  seed  is  the  Son  of 
man  ;  the  field  is  the  ivo7'ld :  the  good  seed 
are  the  child?- en  of  the  kingdom. — Matthew 
xiii.  37-3S. 

The  noiseless  footsteps  pass  away; 
The  stream  flows  on  as  yesterday; 
Nor  can  it  for  a  time  be  seen 
A  benefactor  there  had  been. 

Yet  think  not  that  the  seed  is  dead 
Which  in  the  lonely  place  is  spread; 
It  lives,  it  lives;  the  spring  is  nigh, 
And  soon  its  life  shall  testify. 

Bernard  Barton. 

-ifJNDEAVOR  to  be  patient  in  bearing 
^^^  with  the  defects  and  infirmities  of 
others,  of  what  sort  soever  they  be,  for 
that  thyself  hast  many  failings  which  must 
be  borne  with  by  others. 

Thomas  A  Kempis. 
4* 

Prayer  is  the  pulse  of  the  renewed  soul, 
and  the  constancy  of  its  beat  is  the  test  and 
measure  of  the  spiritual  life. 

Octavius  Winslow. 


3i6  IRovember  lU 

T^UT  he  saith   unto  them,   It  is   I ;  be  not 
afj-aid. — John  vi.  20. 
•I- 
NoT.v  faith  is  the  assu?-ance  of  things  hoped 

for,  the  proving  of  things  not  seen. 

By  faith  we  understand  thai  the  wo?ids  have 
been  frafned  by  the  word  of  God,  so  that  what  is 
seefi  hath  not  been  made  out  of  thijtgs  ivhich  do 
appear. — Revised  Version,  Hebrews  xi.  i, 
2,3- 

Through  the  weary  day  of  sowing, 

Burning  sun  and  drenching  shower, 
Day  by  day,  so  slowly  growing, 

Comes  the  waited  harvest  hour. 
So  the  kingdom  cometh  ever, 

Though  it  seems  so  far  away; 
Each  bright  thought  and  true  endeavor 

Hastens  on  the  blessed  day. 

Rev.  Minot  J.  Savage. 
*^ 

ME  may  ourselves,  one  of  these  dark 
days,  need  forbearance  and  silence 
from  our  brethren  :  let  us  render  it  cheer- 
fully to  those  who  require  it  now.  Be 
this  our  family  rule,  and  our  personal 
bond — speak  evil  of  no  man. 

Rev.  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 


IRovember  12,  317 

'^ESUS  answered  and  said  u?ito  thein^ 
^  This  is  the  work  of  God,  that  ye  believe  o?i 
him  who7n  he  hath  sent. — John  vi.  29. 


The  song  most  sweet — 
Is  that  which  lulls,  not  thrills  the  ear. 
T.  W.  Parsons. 

HLMOST  all  men  have  more  goodness  in 
them  than  the  ordinary  intercourse  of 
the  world  enables  us  to  discover.  Indeed 
most  men,  we  may  be  sure,  from  glimpses 
we  now  and  then  obtain,  carry  with  them  to 
the  grave  much  undeveloped  nobility.  Life 
is  seldom  so  varied  or  so  adventurous  as  to 
enable  a  man  to  unfold  all  that  is  in  him. 
A  creature  who  has  the  capabilities  in  him  to 
live  forever  can  hardly  have  room  in  three- 
score years  to  do  more  than  give  specimens 
of  what  he  might  be  and  will  be. 

Frederick  W.  Faber. 


Let  us  vigorously  examine  our  own  faults, 
and  leave  the  faults  of  others  to  be  judged 
by  God.  BossuET. 


3i8  IRovember  13. 

pOR  the  bread  of  God  is  he  which  cometh 
down  from  heave  ?i,  and  giveth  life  unto  the 
world.    .    .     Lord,  evermore  give  us  this  bread. 
—John  vi.  zz,  34. 

jpIND  your  niche  and  fill  it.  If  it  be 
Jl  ever  so  little,  if  it  is  only  to  be  a  hewer 
of  wood  and  drawer  of  water,  do  something- 
in  this  great  battle  for  God  and  truth. 

Rev.  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 

We  need  all  our  strength  and  all  the  grace 
God  can  give  us  for  to-day's  burdens  and 
to-day's  battles.  To-morrow  belongs  to 
our  heavenly  Father.  I  would  not  know  its 
secrets  if  I  could. 

Theodore  L.  Cuyler,  D.  D. 
•J- 
Winding  and  grinding, 

Work  through  the  day; 
Grief  never  minding, 

Grind  it  away  ! 
What  though  tears  dropping 

Rust  as  they  fall  ? 
Have  no  wheels  stopping. 
Work  comforts  all. 

Mrs.  Mulock. 


1Plovemt)ec  14*  3^9 

JJ/ITII  7ny  soul  have  I  desired  thee  ifi  the 
night :  yea,  with  my  spirit  within  me  will 
I  seek  thee  early. — Isaiah  xxvi.  9. 


It  fortifies  my  soul  to  know- 
That,  though  I  perish,  Truth  is  so: 
That,  howsoe'er  I  stray  and  range, 
Whate'er  I  do.  Thou  dost  not  change. 
I  steadier  step  when  I  recall 
That,  if  I  slip.  Thou  dost  not  fall. 

Arthur  Hugh  Clough. 


'^T'HE  first  great  silence  in  the  life  of 
^^  Jesus  holds  all  His  years  of  growth. 
It  meant  study  in  the  shadows  of  the  syna- 
gogue, meditation  on  the  upland  pastures, 
prayer  beneath  the  evening  stars.  The  first 
great  silence  for  every  life  should  be,  know 
thyself.  God  has  given  to  every  individual 
soul  some  gift  that  is  unique,  peculiar  to 
itself;  some  delicate  tint  that  it  alone  can 
add  to  the  great  picture;  some  tone  that 
no  other  soul  can  sound  forth, — Uwistian 
Register. 


320  naovember  15, 

]\/fy  sheep  hear  my  voice,  a?id  I  knoiv  them, 
and  they  follow  me.       And  I  give  unto 
the7n  eternal  life. — John  x.  27,  28. 

-iJJVERY  attempt  to  make  others  happy, 
^^  every  sin  left  behind,  every  temptation 
trampled  under  foot,  every  step  forward  in 
the  cause  of  what  is  good,  is  a  step  nearer 

the  cause  of  Christ. 

Dean  Stanley. 
►I- 

Thou  followest 
Thy  path,  I  mine;  but  all  go  westerling. 
And  all  will  meet  among  the  hills  of  God. 
Robert  Buchanan. 

The  Present  Time — youngest  born  of 
eternity,  child  and  heir  of  all  the  Past  Times 
with  their  good  and  evil,  and  parent  of  all 
the  Future — is  ever  a  ''New  Era"  to  the 
thinking  man.  To  know  it,  and  what  it  bids 
us  do,  is  ever  the  sum  of  knowledge  for  all 
of  us.  Thomas  Carlyle. 

Sympathy  is  the  safeguard  of  the  human 
soul  against  selfishness. 

Thomas  Carlyle. 


IWovember  16.  321 

yESUS  said  imto  her,  I  am  the  ?'esurrection, 
and  the  life  :  he  that  believeth  in  7ne,  though 
he  were  dead^  yet  shall  he  live. — John  xi.  25. 

God   names  differently  what  we  judge  fail- 
ing, 
In  a  glory-mist  His  purpose  veiling. 
One  by  one  He  moves  us,  hands  anointed 
By  His  hands,  to  do  our  task  appointed. 
Dinah  Mulock   Craik. 


'^'HERE  are  two  freedoms :  the  false, 
Viz  where  a  man  is  free  to  do  what  he 
likes  ;  and  the  true,  where  a  man  is  free  to 
do  what  he  ought.  Two  equalities  :  the  false, 
which  reduces  all  intellects  and  all  charac- 
ters to  a  dead  level  ;  the  true,  wherein  each 
man  has  equal  powers  to  educate  and  use 
whatever  faculties  or  talents  God  has  given 
him,  be  they  more  or  less. 

Charles  Kingsley. 

•J- 

Tell  men  that  God  is  love  ;  that  right  is 
right,  and  wrong  is  wrong. 

F.  W.  Robertson. 


322  November  17. 

'T^HOU  shalt  love  the  Lord  thy  God  with  all 
thy  hearty  and  ivith  all  thy  soul^  and  with 
all  thy  7?iind. — Matthew  xxii.  37. 

God  works,  we  know  not  why  nor  how, 
And  one  day  lights,  close  hidden  now. 
May  blaze  like  gems  upon  an  angel's  brow. 
George  Arnold, 

♦fj^EMEMBER  now  and  always  that  life  is 
irV  no  idle  dream,  but  a  solemn  reality  based 
upon  eternity  and  encompassed  by  eternity. 
Find  out  your  task  ;  stand  to  it  ;  the  night 
Cometh  when  no  man  can  work. 

Thomas  Carlyle. 

The  finest  thing  on  the  planet,  by  all 
acknowledgment,  is  human  life.  It  is  all 
we   know  of   the   image   of   God. 

James  C.  Fernald. 
•!- 
In  the  lifelong  fight  to  be  waged  by 
everyone  single-handed  against  a  host  of 
foes,  the  last  requisite  for  a  good  fight,  the 
last  proof  and  test  of  our  courage  and  man- 
fulness,  must  be  loyalty  to  truth. 

Thomas  Hughes. 


November  18,  3^3 

n^HOU  shalt  love  thy  neighbor  as  thyself. — 
Matthew  xxii.  39. 

The  soul  of  music  slumbers  in  the  shell, 
Till   waked   and    kindled   by   the    master's 

spell, 
And  feeling  hearts — touch  them  but  lightly — 

pour 
A  thousand  melodies  unheard  before. 

Samuel  Rogers. 
•J* 

ME  need  a  true  measure  of  value.  For 
we  impoverish  and  waste  our  life 
when  we  over-value  the  perishable  and  un- 
der-value  the  enduring;  when  we  mistake 
trifles  for  treasures,  and  treasures  for  trifles. 
What  is  it  that  men  seek  first  and  care  for 
most  ?  How  many  do  you  know  who  never 
waste  their  powers,  forget  their  principles, 
nor  lose  their  peace  of  mind  in  a  chase 
after  pleasures  that  are  momentary,  honors 
that  are  bubbles,  and  goods  that  perish  with 
the  using. 

Rev.  Charles  Gordon  Ames. 
►!* 
Wondrous  is  the  strength  of  cheerfulness. 
ThOxMAS  Carlyle. 


324  IWovemtjer  19. 

THEREFORE  I  say  unto  you,  What  things 

soever  ye  desire^  when  ye  pray,  believe  that 

ye  receive  them,  and  ye  shall  have  them. — Mark 

xi.  24. 

•I- 
Thou  that  art  born  in  this  favored  age, 
So  fertile  in  all  enterprise  of  thought, 
Bound  in  fresh  mental  conflicts  to  engage 
The    liberties    for    which    your    fathers 

fought — 
Be  not  thy  spirit  contemplation  fraught. 
Musing  and  mourning  !     Thou  must  act  and 
move, 
Must  teach  thy  children  more  than  thou 
wast  taught, 
Brighten  intelligence,  disseminate  love. 
And,    through    the  world    around,   make 
way  to  worlds  above. 

Lord  Houghton. 
4- 

mNOWLEDGE,     truth,     love,     beauty, 
goodness,   faith,   alone  give  vitality  to 
the  mechanism  of  existence. 

James  Martineau. 

►^ 

Habit  is  a  cable  ;  we  weave  a  thread  of 
it  every  day,  and  at  last  we  cannot  break  it. 

Horace  Mann. 


movcmber  20.  325 

J-TEA  VEN  and  earth  shall  pass  away  ;  but 
my  words  shall  not  pass  away. — Mark 
xiii.  31. 

HSK  for  the  golden  key  of  faith,  and  then 
put  it  into  the  Lord's  hand,  that  He 
may   turn    it   in    the    lock    of    ''His    good 

treasure."  Anonymous. 

•i- 

Hand 

Grasps  hand,  eye  lights  eye  in  good  fellow- 
ship, 

And  great  hearts  expand. 

And  grow  one  in  the  sense  of  this  world's 
life.  Robert  Browning. 

Every  life  has  its  secret  source.  The 
most  transparent  character — the  man  or 
woman  whose  every  motive  we  may  seem  to 
read  through  the  crystalline  purity  of  a  sin- 
cere life — has  hidden  springs,  fed  by  God's 
own  hand,  whose  existence  we  may  surmise, 
but  whose  depth  no  plummet  may  ever 
fathom.  Year  in  and  year  out  we  may  live 
side  by  side  with  our  nearest  and  dearest, 
and  never  drink  from  these  fountains  which 
supply  inspiration  to  them. —  Christian 
Register. 


326  Movcmbct  2l» 

J/[/A  TCH  ye   and  pray,  lest  ye   enter  i?ito 
temptation.      The   spirit  truly   is  ready, 
but  the  flesh  is  weak. — Mark  xiv.  38. 

►I- 
This  be  my  comfort,  in  these  days  of  grief, 
Which  is  not  Christ's,  nor   forms  heroic 
tale: 
Apart  from  Him,  if  not  a  sparrow  fail, 

May  not  He  pitying  view,  and  send  relief 
When  foes  or  friends  perplex,  and  peevish 

thoughts  prevail  ? 

J.  H.  Newman. 
►J- 
^nV  USIC  is  sweetest  near  or  over  rivers 
JLIIJ'  where  the  echo  thereof  is  best  re- 
bounded by  the  water.  Praise  for  pensive- 
ness,  thanks  for  tears,  and  blessing  God 
over  the  floods  of  affliction  make  the  most 
melodious  music  in  the  ear  of  Heaven. 

Thomas  Fuller. 

"When  He  shall  appear,  we  shall  be  like 
Him."  In  this  the  human  spirit  rests  ; 
there  is  nothing  greater.  Already  it  ap- 
peared so  to  us,  when,  under  the  coarse 
garment,  He  concealed  the  splendors  of 
heaven — already  it  seemed  to  us  that  here 
or  nowhere  was  to  be  seen  the  noblest 
form  of  humanity.  Tholuck. 


IRovcmber  22.  327 

TF  a/iy  man  will  come  aftei'  ;;;<?,  let  hi?n  deny 
himself  J  and  take  up  his  cross  daily,    a?id 
follow  me. — Luke  ix.  23. 

There  be  those  who  sow  beside 
The  waters  that  in  silence  glide, 
Trusting  no  echo  will  declare 
Whose  footsteps  ever  wandered  there. 

And  soon  or  late  a  time  will  come 
When  witnesses,  that  now  are  dumb, 
With  grateful  eloquence  shall  tell 
From  whom  the  seed,  now  scattered,  fell. 
Bernard  Barton. 


'JT'HE  second  great  silence  in  the  life  of 
^i^  Jesus  hides  the  masterful  bracing  of 
His  powers  to  the  supreme  mission  of  His 
life.  No  sooner  had  He  answered  the  sum- 
mons from  the  voice  of  John  the  Baptist 
calling  Him  to  come  and  take  up  the  work 
which  waited  to  be  done,  than,  led  by  the 
Spirit,  He  went  out  into  the  wilderness  that 
He  might  be  alone,  to  concentrate  His 
vision.  .  .  The  second  great  silence,  then, 
for  every  life,  should  be,  Control  thyself. — 
Christian  Register. 


328  November  23, 

/JJVD  there  came  a  voice   out  of  the  cloudy 
saying,    This   is   my   beloved    Son  :    hear 
him. — Luke  ix.  35. 

When  earth's  dark  sorrows  gather  round, 

Earth's  consolations  ever  fail  ; 
But  succor  is  in  prayer  found; 

I  lift  my  hands,  I  lift  my  wail, 
I  lift  my  heart,  and  Thou  dost  send 
Solace  and  strength,  Almighty  Friend. 

Hymns  of  Denmark. 


'^'HE  third  great  silence  in  the  life  of 
^*i^  Jesus  tenderly  veils  the  crowning  hour 
of  His  spirit's  tragic  agony.  In  the  Garden 
of  Gethsemane  He  left  even  the  most 
beloved  of  His  disciples,  that  He  might  be 
alone;  that  out  of  the  silence  He  might 
gather  strength  to  enable  Him  to  meet  that 
highest  demand;  that  He  might  have  cour- 
age to  lay  down  again  all  that  He  had  taken 
up — all  the  bright  hopes,  all  the  splendid 
ideals,  all  the  expected  achievements.  The 
third  great  silence,  then,  for  every  life, 
should  be,  Forego  thyself. — Christian 
Register. 


1Rov>eml?cc  24,  329 

T^OR  the  Soil  of  man  is  not  come  to  destroy 
mens  lives,  but  to  save  them. — Luke  ix. 
56. 

For 

All  flesh  is  as  grass , 

And  all  the  glory  thereof  as  the  flower  of 

grass. 
The    grass    withereth,    and    the    flower 

falleth  ; 
But  the  word  of  the  Lord  abideth  forever. 
(Revised  Version)  i  Peter  i.  24.  25. 


'^'HE  great  aspect  in  which  man  differs 
Vl/  from  the  beasts  is  this:  The  beast  is 
furnished  only  with  such  powers  and 
faculties  as  he  needs  for  his  low  activities 
and  his  short  span  of  life.  But  the  intellect 
with  which  man  is  equipped  is  not  for  three- 
score and  ten  merely  but  for  undying  life 
and  use.  Man's  mental  outfit  far  transcends 
whatever  it  can  accomplish  in  this  short 
life. 

Rev.  E.  W.  Donald,  D.  D. 


33°  Bovember  25, 

T^OR  the  Son  of  ??ia?i  is  come  to  seek  and  to 
save  that  which  was  lost. — Luke  xix.  lo. 


For  at  the  heart  of  womanhood 

The  child's  great  heart  doth  lie; 
At  childhood's  heart,  the  germ  of  good, 

Lies  God's  simplicity. 
So,  sister,  be  thy  womanhood 

A  baptism  on  thy  brow, 
For  something  dimly  understood. 

And  which  thou  art  not  now. 
But  which  within  thee,  all  the  time, 

Maketh  thee  what  thou  art; 
Maketh  thee  long  and  strive  and  climb— 

The  God-life  at  thy  heart. 

George  MacDonald. 


CONSCIENCE  signifies  that  knowledge 
which  a  man  hath  of  his  own  thoughts 
and  actions;  and  because,  if  a  man  judgeth 
fairly  of  his  actions  by  comparing  them 
with  the  law  of  God,  his  mind  will  approve 
or  condemn  him,  this  knowledge  of  con- 
science may  be  both  an  accuser  and  a 
judge. 

Jonathan  Swift. 


movcmber  26.  33^ 

nrHE  Father  hath  not  left  me  alone  :  for  T 
do  always  those  things  that  please  him.     As 
he  spake  these  words  many  believed  on  him. — 
John  viii.  29,  30. 

There  seems  a  deeper  impulse  given 
By  lonely  hour  and  darkened  room 

To  solemn  thoughts  that  soar  to  heaven, 
Seeking  a  life  and  world  to  come. 

Charlotte  Bronte. 


fT  is  Christ  who  has  destroyed  the  fear 
of  death;  with  Him  death  was  but  a 
sleep.  .  .  What  would  be  the  use  of 
fighting  battles  if  the  future  were  not  an 
answer  to  the  present  pain?  Any  man  who 
repeats  in  his  soul  the  history  of  the  cross, 
repeats  in  his  experience  the  history  of  the 
resurrection.  The  whole  result  of  Christ's 
victory  over  death  is  to  make  men  rational 
and  moral. 

Rev.  George  A.  Gordon,  D.  D. 


Happiness  in  the  presence  of  sorrow  is  a 
benediction.  Anonymous. 


332  November  27, 

AND   all  mine    are   thine ^    and  thine   are 

mine  j  and  I  am  glorified  in  them.     And 

these  thijigs  I  speak  in   the   world^    that  they 

might  have   my  Joy  fulfilled  ifi  themselves. — 

John  xvii.  lo,  13. 

O    EYES,   turned    inward    on    our   darkened 
hearts, 
Open  to  see  God's  beauty  on  the  earth; 
Self-pitying    tears     that     flow     upon     His 
smarts, 
Fructify  all  our  barrenness  and  dearth. 
O  folded   hands,   close  clasped    in  dull  de- 
spair, 
Grow  busy  with  God's  work  of  love  and 
peace; 
O  heart,  forget  to  grieve,  and  rise  to  where 
misgivings  cease. 

Caroline  E.  S.  North. 


BE  not  anxious  about  to-morrow.  Do 
to-day's  duty,  fight  to-day's  temptation, 
and  do  not  weaken  and  distrust  yourself  by 
looking  forward  to  things  which  you  cannot 
see,  and  could  not  understand  if  you  saw 
them.  Charles  Kingsley. 


Bovcmljcr  28.  333 

JVI' EITHER  pray  I  for  these  alofie,  but  for 
tke?}i  also  ivhich  shall  believe  oti  me  through 
their  word :  that  they  all  may  be  one  ;  as  thou^ 
Father,  art  in  me,  and  I  in  thee,  that  they  also 
may  be  one  in  us  :  that  the  world  may  believe  that 
thou  hast  sent  me. — John  xvii.  20,  21. 

Learn  the  mystery  of  progression  duly: 
Do  not  call  each  glorious  change  decay; 

But  know  we  only  hold  our  treasures  truly 
When  it  seems  as  if  they  passed  away. 

Nor  dare  to  blame  God's  gifts  for  incom- 
pleteness: 
In  that  want  their  beauty  lies  ;  they  roll 
Toward  some   infinite  depth    of    love  and 
sweetness, 
Bearing  onward  man's  reluctant  soul. 
Adelaide  Procter. 


1|VAUSE,  you  who  read  this,  and  think 
U^  for  a  moment  of  the  long  chain  of 
iron  or  gold,  of  thorns  or  flowers,  that  never 
would  have  bound  you  but  for  the  formation 
of  the  first  link  of  one  memorable  day. 

Charles  Dickens. 


334  IRovember  29, 

IF  ye  continue  in  my  word,  then  are  ye  my  dis- 
ciples ifideed.     And  ye  shall  know  the  truth, 
and  the  truth  shall  make  you  free.  — John  v i i i . 
31,  32. 

/f^UR  instruments,  our  hands,  our  hearts, 
Vi^  are  given  us  to  work  with  in  this  time 
— to  struggle  with  the  evil,  to  bring  out  the 
good,  in  this  time,  in  order  that  people  may 
look  back  in  after-days  and  say:  ''  See  what 
has  come  down  to  us  from  it;  see  what  good 
has  been  removed  from  all  the  wrong  which 
those  who  dwelt  in  it  tell  us  of;  see  what 
there  is  in  it  to  imitate  !  " 

Frederick  D.  Maurice. 


Life  is  but  a  working  day. 

Where  tasks  are  set  aright: 
A  time  to  work,  a  time  to  pray, 

And  then,  please  God,  a  quiet  night, 
Whose  palms  are  green,  whose  robes  are 
white; 
A  long-drawn  breath,  a  balm  for  sorrow. 
And  all  things  lovely  on  the  morrow. 

Christina  Rossetti. 


IRovember  30.  335 

J/f/A  TCH,  therefore,  for  ye  know  not  what 
hour  your  Lord  doth  cofne. — Matthew 
xxiv.  42. 


0  Time  !  who  know'st  a  lenient  hand  to  lay- 
Softest    on    Sorrow's    wound,     and    slowly 

thenjce 
(Lulling  to  sad  repose  the  weary  sense) 
The  faint  pang  stealest  unperceived  away  ! 
On  thee  I  rest  my  only  hope  at  last, 
And  think,  when  thou  hast  dried  the  bitter 

tear 
That  flows  in  vain  o'er  all  my  soul  held  dear, 

1  may  look  back  on  every  sorrow  past, 
And    meet    life's  peaceful  evening  with  a 

smile; 
As  some  lone  bird,  at  day's  departing  hour. 
Sings   in   the    sunshine,    of    the    transient 

shower 
Forgetful,    though  its  wings  are    wet    the 

while — 
Yet,  ah,   how  much  must  that  poor  heart 

endure 
Which  hopes  from  thee,  and  thee  alone,  a 

cure  ! 

William  Lisle  Bowles. 


33^  December  I. 

C^  Y  not  thou  ^  What  is  the  cause  that  the  former 
days  were  better  than  these  ?  for  thou  dost  not 
inquire  wisely  concerni7ig  this. — Ecclesiastes 
vii.  lo. 

All  that  is,  at  all, 
Lasts  ever,  past  recall; 
Earth  changes,  but  thy  soul  and  God 

Stand  sure. 

Robert  Browning 


♦IfF  the  heart  knows  its  own  bitterness, 
■■  let  us  be  thankful  that  it  also  knows  its 
secret  joys.  As  the  disciples  said  of  Jesus 
when  they  saw  His  wonderful  strength, 
'■'■  He  has  meat  to  eat  that  we  know  not  of," 
so  many  a  tried  soul  is  fed  with  divine 
manna  that  we  know  not  of.  Angels  min- 
ister to  them  while  we  sleep,  and  they  rise 
refreshed  and  strengthened  for  the  daily 
fight  which  they  bravely  meet.  .  .  It  is  all 
explained  in  this — that  their  life  is  hid  in 
God  ;  that  from  the  hidden  springs  they 
drink  draughts  of  love  and  refreshment. — 
Christian  Register. 


December  2.  337 

TN  the  day  of  prosperity  be  joyful^  but  in  the 

day  of  adversity  consider :   God  also  hath  set 

the  one  over  against  the  other ^  to  the  end  that 

?nan  should  find  nothing  after  him. — Eccle- 

SIASTES  vii.  14. 

mEVER  give  less  than  your  best,  and 
remember    that   your   best   is  always 

yourself.  Anonymous, 

►J- 

There  is  no  victory  possible  without 
humility  and  magnanimity,  and  no  magna- 
nimity and  humility  possible  without  an 
ideal.  Thomas  Hughes. 

We  are  not  all  alike  in  this  world  .  .  . 
and  we  do  not  simply  differ  from  one 
another,  but  we  are  dependent  upon  each 
other.  .  .  It  is  part  of  the  original  plan  of 
Almighty  God  for  man. 

Fr.  Osborne. 

Strong  was  His  arm,  the  Bringer  of  salva- 
tion; 
Strong  was  the  word  of  God  to  succor  thee! 

Bishop  Heber. 


33^  December  3» 

T^UT  the  wisdom  that  is  from  above  is  first 
pure^  then  peaceable^  gentle^  and  easy  to  be 
entreated. — James  iii.  17. 


Often  in  leaves  by  the  wayside, 
But  touched  with  a  heavenly  glow, 

And  with  self-sacrifice  fragrant, 
The  flowers  of  great  love  grow. 

Henry  Abbey. 


♦JI^AVE  these  three  things  always  present 
"•/  in    your  mind  :  what  you  were,  what 
you  are,  and  what  you  will  be. 

St.  Bernard. 

►I- 

Oh  !  we  cannot  spare  the  tender  voice  of 
warning,  still  heard  amid  all  earthly  noises, 
"What  shall  it  profit  a  man  to  gain  the 
whole  world,  and  lose  or  waste  his  own 
being  !  Seek  first  what  is  worth  most — the 
kingdom  of  God  and  His  righteousness — the 
rectitude  that  is  the  completeness  of  His 
nature  and  yours." 

Rev.  Charles  Gordon  Ames. 


December  4,  339 

r^HOOSE ye  this  day  whom  ye  will  serve. — 
Joshua  xxiv.  15. 


MHEN  one  we  love  is  dead,  why  do  we 
follow  him  with  eager  passionate 
love  all  the  days  of  our  life  ?  Men  have 
often  done  the  best  work  of  their  lives  under 
the  inspiration  of  love  for  the  dead.  Many 
and  many  a  mother  loves  to-day  her  little 
one  that  has  been  dead  for  a  score  of  years, 
and  goes  to  the  sacred  chamber  where  its 
toys  and  clothes  are  kept  to  indulge  that 
love.  How  could  we  love  the  dead  did  we 
not  feel  deep  down  in  our  hearts  the  cer- 
tainty that  they  were  still  living,  living  in 
another  and  a  brighter  sphere.  The  capac- 
ity for  love  with  which  we  are  endowed  is 
a  mere  stupid  waste  if  there  is  no  life  but 
this  for  it  to  be  exercised  in. 

Rev.  E.  W.  Donald,  D.  D. 


Thoughts,  like  light,  bind  the  world  in 
one. 

George  Eliot. 


340  December  5. 

J  HAVE  fought  a  good  fight,  I  have  finished 
my  course,  I  have  kept  the  faith  ;  henceforth 
there  is  laid  up  for  me  a  croivn  of  righteous- 
ness, which  the  Lord,  the  righteous  judge,  shall 
give  me  at  that  day  ;  and  not  to  me  only,  but 
unto  all  them  also  that  love  his  appearing. — 
2  Timothy  iv.  7,  8. 

What  have  I  learned  where'er  I've  been, 
From  all  I've  heard,  from  all  I've  seen  ? 
What    know    I     more     that's    worth     the 

knowing  ? 
What  have  I  done  that's  worth  the  doing  ? 

Pythagoras. 

►^ 

/f^VER  our  forms,  our  faces,  our  aspira- 
Vi^  tions  we  may  have  little  control. 
These  may  change  as  do  the  seasons,  but 
over  our  desires  and  aspirations  for  God  we 
are  given  a  large  governorship. 

Rev.  Thomas  Van  Ness. 

Gradually  to  lay  a  broad  basis  of  such 
evidence  as  ought  through  all  time  to  satisfy 
the  reason  and  the  heart  of  mankind,  seems 
to  have  been  the  object  with  which  our 
Saviour  wrought. 

Wm.  Ewart  Gladstone. 


2)eceml)ec  6.  34  r 

TN  holiness  and  righteousness  before  hijn,  ail  ■ 
the  days  of  our  life. 

Through  the  tender  mercy  of  our  God ; 
whereby  the  dayspring  from  on  high  hath 
visited  us.  To  give  light  to  thetn  that  sit  in 
darkness  and  in  the  shadoiv  of  death,  to  guide 
our  feet  into  the  way  of  peace. — Luke  i.  75, 

78,  79- 

►I* 

Send  a  sweet  breeze  from  the  sea,  O  Lord, 

From  Thy  deep,  deep  sea  of  love  ; 
Though  it  lift  not  the  veil   from  the  cloudy 

height. 
Let  the  brow  grow  cool  and  the  footstep 

light, 
As  it  comes  with  holy  and  soothing  might, 
Like  the  wing  of  a  snowy  dove. 

Frances  Ridley  Havergal. 
►I* 
♦fC^E  that  wills  to  do  ''His  will  shall  know 
it  J  of  the  doctrine  whether  it  be  of  God." 
.  .  .  The  true  doctrine  is,  we  conceive, 
''Act  upon  Christian  principle,  and  you  will 
come  to  believe  it  ;  act  upon  what  is  true 
in  itself,  and  it  will  come  to  be  also  appar- 
ent or  true  to  you." 

Wm.  Ewart  Gladstone. 


342  2)cceml)er  7. 

T/f/'iriLE  we  look  not  at  the  things  tvhich  are 
seen,  but  at  the  things  which  a7'e  not  see7i. 
— 2  Corinthians  iv.  i8. 


llJVERY  moment  brings  some  duty  to  be 
/^W  performed,  and  this  is  enough  for  our 
perfection.  Anonymous. 

Opinions  may  differ;  they  must  differ,  and 
there  is  no  cause  for  regret  that  they  do 
differ,  provided  only  that  the  most  uncer- 
tain, the  most  challengeable  of  them  may  be 
considered  "the  stepping  stones  to  higher 
things."  Samuel  Eliot,  LL.  D. 


And  for  every  sincere  act  of  worship 
and  every  upreaching  of  the  soul,  uttered 
or  unexpressed,  the  world  will  be  the  bet- 
ter and  heaven  the  nearer. 

Anonymous. 

I  hold  it  truth,  with  him  who  sings 
To  one  clear  harp  in  divers  tones, 
That  men  may  rise  on  stepping  stones 
Of  their  dead  selves  to  hidden  things. 
Alfred  Tennyson. 


2)cccmt>er  8»  343 

"l^HAT  which  I  see  not,  teach    thou  me. — 
Job  xxxiv.   32. 


No  earnest  work 

Of  any  honest  creature,  howbeit  weak, 
Imperfect,  ill-adapted,  fails  so  much 
It  is  not  gathered,  as  a  grain  of  sand 
To  enlarge  the  sum  of  human  action  used 
For  carrying  out  God's  ends. 

Mrs.  Browning 


♦ITT  seems,  my  son,  thou  must  at  all  times 
■■  hope  for  spiritual  communion.  Self-un- 
consciousness is  the  condition  of  blessed- 
ness. Both  the  good  and  the  evil  belonging 
to  thee  thou  must  learn  to  forget.  Let  infinite 
excellence  bend  over  thee,  like  the  all-invest- 
ing sky.  Forget  thyself,  thy  present,  thy 
future  in  God's  contemplation.  His  wisdom. 
His  work.  Every  moment  have  something 
that  is  worthy,  be  it  in  mind,  be  it  in  act. 
When  the  mind's  habits  change,  man 
changes. 

Protap  Chundar  Mozoomdar. 


344  December  9. 

yJJVD  the  Lord  God  said,  Behold,  the  man  is 
become  as  one  of  us,  to  know  good  and  evil. 
— Genesis  iii.  22. 


Since  God  is  love,  and  loving 
Is  heaven,  love  keeps  the  gate  ; 

And  they  who  know  love's  secret 
Need  no  future  wait. 

In  spite,  then,  of  earth's  sorrow, 

In  spite  of  all  its  sin, 
The  kingdom  is  before  you  : 

Arise  and  enter  in. 

Rev.  Minot  J.  Savage. 


'^'HERE  is  a  state  of  heart  which  makes 
WL'  truth  credible  the  moment  it  is  ut- 
tered. .  .  Love  is  credible  to  a  loving 
heart  ;  purity  is  credible  to  a  pure  mind.  .  . 
It  is  of  such  a  state — a  state  of  love  and  hope 
— which  makes  the  Divine  truth  credible  and 
natural  at  once,  that  Jesus  speaks:  ''  Blessed 
are  they  that  have   not  seen,  and  yet  have 

believed." 

F,  W.  Robertson. 


December  10.  345 

T>EACE  I  leave   with  you,   my  peace  I  give 
unto  you  :  not  as  the  world  giveth,  give  I 
unto  you. — John  xiv.  27. 

Sow  good   services  ;  sweet  remembrance 
will  spring  from  them. 

Mme.  de  Stael. 

♦ir  WISH  to  speak  to  you  this  morning  on 

■■  the  limits  of  human  responsibility.  I 
wish  to  point  out  to  you  that  we  cannot  con- 
fine our  responsibility  to  our  own  acts.  .  . 
There  is  such  a  thing  as  corporate  responsi- 
bility. .  .  There  is  a  sense  in  which  one  man 
is  responsible  for  the  acts  of  another  man.  .  . 
We  are  so  knitted  and  jointed  together  that 
our  acts  go  out  into  other  lives  and  perpet- 
uate themselves,  and  thus  the  consequences 
of  our  deeds  are  felt  in  other  generations  and 
in  other  circles,  and  because  of  what  we 
have  done  other  crimes  are  committed,  and 
in  that  measure  we  are  responsible  for  the 
crimes.  .  .  No  man  stands  alone  in  life. 
.  .  .  You  are  born  into  a  family,  and  are  a 
part  of  that  family. 

Rev.   Lyman  Abbott. 


346  December  II, 

pOR  7nine  eyes  have  seen  thy  salvation^  which 

thou  hast  prepared  before  the  face  of  all 

people.     A  light  to  lighten  the  Gentiles^  and  the 

glory  of  thy  people  Israel. — Luke  ii.   30,  31, 

32. 

Oh  !  for  grace  our  hearts  to  soften  ; 

Teach  us,  Lord,  at  length  to  love. 
We,  alas  !  forget  too  often 

What  a  friend  we  have  above. 

Rev.  John  Newton. 

*'||^ERILY,  verily,  I  say  unto  thee,  except 
^^  a  man  be  born  again,  he  cannot  see 
the  kingdom  of  God."  As  much  as  to  say, 
*'It  is  not  enough  that  you  have  examined 
My  credentials,  and  that,  approving  them, 
you  own  Me  as  a  teacher  carrying  a  com- 
mission from  on  high.  You  must  accept 
deeper  results  of  My  mission  than  any  you 
have  yet  thought  of,  and  must  give  your 
mind  and  spirit  to  be  translated  into  the 
region  of  a  new  and  better  life." 

Wm.   Ewart  Gladstone. 

It  is  the  soul  that  builds  itself  a  body. 

Schiller. 


5>ecembei:  12.  347 

]~[E  that  is  faithful  in  that  which  is  least,  is 
faithful  also  in  imich. — Luke  xvi.  lo. 


For  ye  have  need  of  patience,  that,  after  ye 
have  dojie  the  will  of  God,  ye  might  receive  the 
promise. — Hebrews  x.  t,6. 

As  when  the  valleys  all  in  shadow  lie, 

And  shadowy  shapes  of  fear  still  haunt  the 

night, 
Some  mountain    peak    reflects  the  coming 

light, 
And  waiting  lips  break  forth  with  joyful  cry 
For  gladness  that  at  last  the  day  is  nigh. 
So   when   some    soul    that    towers   afar   is 

bright. 
The  souls  within  the  shadow,  at  the  sight 
Grow   sudden   glad   to   know  'tis   light   ©n 

high  ! 

Anonymous. 

<>^ESUS  and  souls  like  Him  help  us.  .  .  We 
%J  see  them  towering  above  us  like  moun- 
tains that  catch  the  first  rays  of  light,  while 
we  are  in  the  dark. 

Rev.   Minot  J.   Savage. 


348  December  13» 

pOR  what  is  a  ??ian  advantaged,  if  he  gain  the 
7vhole  world,  and  lose  himself,  or  be  cast 
away? — Luke  ix.  25. 

►J- 
Not  by  one  portal  or  one  path  alone 
God's  holy  messages  to  men  are  known. 
Edwin  Arnold. 

?^EEP  within  our  being  another  and 
^^  grander  miracle  has  its  growth  from 
small  beginnings.  The  seeds  of  heavenly 
character  may  exist  in  soft  inward  prompt- 
ings, too  weak  for  words,  too  obscure  for 
conscious  thought.  The  noblest  sentiments 
may  be  born  as  faint  thrills  of  feeling  which 
pass  unnoticed.  From  half-whispered  sug- 
gestions may  spring  great  truths  and  great 
actions.  And  who  of  us  does  not  know  what 
great  miseries  may  grow  from  small  sins  ? 
Rev.  Charles  Gordon  Ames. 
►J- 
When  we  see  how  the  course  of  history 
has  been  changed  by  a  few  strong  and  ear- 
nest souls,  can  we  half  imagine  the  splendor 
that  w^ould  light  up  this  human  world  if 
multitudes  were  to  become  such  as  these 
were  7  Rev.  Charles  Gordon  Ames. 


H)ecemt)cr  14»  349 

n^HE  life  is  7?iore  than  meat^  mid  the  body 
more  than  raimeftt. — Luke  xii.  23. 

•!- 
This  is  the  curse  of  life.     That  not 

A  nobler,  wiser  train 
Of  calmer  thoughts  and  feelings  blot 

Our  passions  from  our  brain. 
But  each  day  brings  its  petty  dust 

Our  soon  choked  souls  to  fill; 
And  we  forget  because  we  must, 
And  not  because  we  will. 

Matthew  Arnold. 

'7T\ISAPP0INTMENTS  are  shafts  sent 
Jt'  to  the  very  bottom  of  our  souls,  and 
whatever  is  there,  whether  gold,  or  only 
copper,  they  bring  it  to  the  surface. 

Edmund  Garrett. 

The  times  in  which  we  live  are  great — so 
great  that  we  can  hardly  conceive  them 
great  enough;  so  great  that  we,  old  and 
young,  cannot  be  great  and  good  and  brave 
and  hardworking  enough  ourselves,  if  we  do 
not  wish  to  appear  quite  unworthy  of  the 
times  in  which  our  lot  has  been  cast. 

Max  Muller. 


350  December  15. 

J^ELOVED,  if  God  so   loved  us,  we  ought 
also  to  love  one  another. — i  John  iv.  ii. 


Prayer  is  the  burden  of  a  sigh, 

The  falHng  of  a  tear, 
The  upward  glancing  of  an  eye 

When  none  but  God  is  near. 

Prayer  is  the  simplest  form  of  speech 

That  infant  lips  can  try; 
Prayer  the  sublimest  strains  that  reach 

The  majesty  on  high. 

James  Montgomery. 


T^ILIGENCE  and  moderation  are  the 
'»'  best  steps  whereby  to  climb  to  any 
excellency.  Nay,  it  is  rare  if  there  be  any 
other  way.  The  heavens  send  not  down 
their  rain  in  floods,  but  by  drops,  and  deny 
distillations.  A  man  is  neither  good  nor 
wise,  nor  rich  at  once  :  yet  softly  creeping 
up  these  hills,  he  shall  every  day  better  his 
prospects;  till  at  last  he  gain  the  top. 

Owen  Feltham. 


2)eccmber  16,  35  ^ 

jTPOR  this  is  the  love  of  God,  that  we  keep  his 
couunandments;  and  his  conwiandnients  are 
not  grievous. — i  John  v.  3. 


Prayer  is  the  soul's  sincere  desire, 
Uttered  or  unexpressed. 

James  Montgomery. 


♦IfN  the  good  providence  of  God  even  our 
■■  spiritual  failures  are  not  without  their 
benefits.  Rightly  apprehended,  they  teach 
us  a  humility  which  rarely  is  experienced  so 
thoroughly  except  as  resulting  from  this. 
This  fact  does  not  justify  carelessness  in 
respect  to  temptation.  .  .  But  a  truly 
devout  spirit  does  gain  spiritual  wisdom 
and  strength  from  its  experience  of  failure, 
penitence,  and  struggles  to  reform  which  are 
full  of  blessing.  Yet  the  penitence  and  the 
endeavor  to  reconsecrate  life  must  follow 
one's  consciousness  of  guilt  quickly.  —  The 
Congregationalist. 


352  December  17» 

/jND  this  is  love,  that  we  walk  afte}-  his 
conwiandments.       This  is    the   com7na?id- 
menty  that,  as  ye  have  heard  fro??i  the  l?eginm?ig, 
ye  should  walk  in  it. — 2  John  i.  6. 


Arise,  arise,  good  Christian, 
Let  right  to  wrong  succeed; 

Let  penitential  sorrow 

To  heavenly  gladness  lead. 

To  the  light  that  hath  no  evening, 
That  knows  nor  morn  nor  sun, 

The  light  so  near  and  golden. 

The  Celestial  Coujitry. 


HLOVE  of  what  is  high,  or  true  and 
pure,  often  keeps  out  from  the  heart 
what  is  contrary  to  these.  Even  when  the 
heart  and  habit  are  not  in  the  right,  if  once 
the  right  be  chosen,  be  aimed  at,  be  prac- 
ticed, the  base,  the  false,  the  impure 
become  gradually  crowded  out  and  eventu- 
ally supplanted.  .  .  The  hunger  and  thirst 
for  the  good  are  the  best  assurances  that 
the  evil  is  to  pass  away.  —  The  Churchman. 


Wcccmbcx  18.  353 

'POR  as  ?)iany  as  are  led  by  the  spirit  of  God^ 
they  are  the  sons  of  God. — Romans  viii.  14. 

For  in  him  we  live^  and  moz^e,  a?id  have  our 
being  j  as  certain  also  of  your  own  poets  have 
said,  For  we  are  also  his  offspring. — Acxsxvii. 
28. 

Prune  thou  thy  words,  the  thoughts  control, 
That  o'er  thee  swell  and  throng: 

Thy  will  condense  within  thy  soul, 
And  change  to  purpose  strong. 

John  Henry  Newman. 

^|(J VERY  day  is  a  life,  fresh  with  reinstated 
^^^  power,  setting  out  on  its  allotted  labor 
and  limited  path.  Its  morning  resembles  a 
whole  youth.  Its  eventide  is  sobering  into 
age.  It  is  rounded  at  either  end  by  a  sleep 
— unconscious  at  the  outset  and  oblivion  at 
the  close.  We  are  born  anew  every  time  that 
the  sun  rises,  and  lights  up  the  world  to  do 
his  part  in  it.  N.  L.  Frothingham. 

Active  participation  in  the  duties  of  this 
world  seems  to  be  the  surest  safeguard  for 
the  health  of  body  and  mind. 

Lydia  Maria  Child. 


354  5)ccemt)er  19. 

l^HEREFORE   we   labor,    that,  whether 
present  or  absefit,  we  may  be  accepted  of 
him. — 2  Corinthians  V.  9. 

Let  goodness  and  mercy,  my  bountiful  God, 
Still  follow  my  footsteps  till  I  meet  Thee 
above: 
I  seek  by  the  path  which   my  forefathers 
trod 
Through  the  land  of  their  sojourn.  Thy 
kingdom  of  love. 

James  Montgomery. 


^j|V  Y  ground  of  hope  for  myself  and  for 
JLII*/  humanity  is  in  that  divine  fullness  of 
love  which  was  manifested  in  the  life,  teach- 
ings, and  self-sacrifices  of  Christ.  In  the 
infinite  mercy  of  God  so  revealed,  and  not 
in  any  work  or  merit  of  our  nature,  I 
humbly,  yet  very  hopefully,  trust.  I  regard 
Christianity  as  a  life  rather  than  a  creed, 
and  in  judging  of  my  fellow-man  I  can  use 
no  other  standard  than  that  which  our  Lord 
and  Master  has  given  us  :  "  By  their  fruits 
ye  shall  know  them." 

Rev,  Lyman  Abbott. 


5)ecembei:  20.  355 

J^OR  this  is  the  love  of  God,   that  we   keep 
his  commandmefits,  and  his  commandtnents 
are  not  g7-ievoiis. — i  John  v.  3. 


How  can  faith  be  full  of  blindness 
To  despair  of  mercy's  kindness — 
While  the  hand  of  Heaven  is  giving 
Comfort  from  the  ever-living? 

Nicholas  Breton. 


'F  we  have  any  virtue  in  us,  did  it  spring 
up  in  an  hour  or  a  day  ?  If  we  have 
any  wisdom,  did  we  pick  it  up  in  a  lump  at 
some  particular  turn  of  our  experience  ? 
No  ;  these  signs  and  fruits  of  inward  life 
are  the  outcome  of  long,  slow-working 
causes,  running  back  through  all  our  years; 
including  all  that  we  dreaded  and  bewailed, 
as  well  as  all  that  we  welcomed  and  enjoyed; 
including  also  the  outward  and  inward  life 
of  our  struggling  ancestors,  and  the  long 
and  broad  evolution  of  humanity.  We  must 
follow  the  hint:  we  must  make  each  step  an 
onward  one. 

Rev.  Charles  G.  Ames. 


35^  Becembec  21. 

T/"^  T  a  little  while  is  the  light  with  you.     Walk 
while  ye  have  the  light,  lest  darkness  come 
upon  you. — John  xii.  35. 


The  lingering  harmony  in  ocean  shells, 
The  fairy  music  of  the  meadow  bells, 
Earth  and  void  air,  water  and  wasting  flame, 
Have  words  to  whisper,  tongues  to  tell  His 
name. 

Edwin  Arnold. 


mONE  of  us  can  live  well  by  an  occa- 
sional good  resolution,  any  more  than 
a  seed  can  grow  into  a  healthy  plant  by 
being  used  as  a  common  plaything,  and 
only  now  and  then  put  into  the  earth  for 
a  minute  or  two.  Everything  depends  on 
storing  up  in  ourselves,  by  a  habit  of  right- 
willing  and  well-doing,  a  great  and  ever- 
increasing  fund  of  moral  power  which  shall 
be  always  available  to  brace  us  against  sud- 
den temptation,  to  help  us  carry  out  our 
better  purposes,  and  to  hold  us  steady  and 
true  to  the  ideal. 

Rev.  Charles  G.  Ames. 


December  22.  357 

/O  MAN  greatly  beloved^  fear    not ;    peace 
be    unto   thee,    be   strong^  yea,   be    strong. 

And  when    he  had    spoken    unto    me    I   was 

strengthened,  and  said,  Let  my  Lord  speak  ;  for 

thou  hast  strengthened  me. — Daniel  x.  19. 
-I- 

There  was  Hope  in  the  ark  at  the  dawn  of 
the  day 

When  o'er   the  wide  waters   the   dove   flew 
away. 

But  when,  ere  the  night,  she  came  wearily 
back 

With  the  leaf  she  had  plucked  on  her  deso- 
late track, 

The    children     of    Noah    knelt    down   and 
adored, 

And  uttered  in  anthems  their  praise  to  the 
Lord, 

"  Oh,  bird  of  glad  tidings  !     Oh,  joy  in  our 
pain! 

Beautiful  dove,  thou  art  welcome  again  !  " 
Charles  Mackay. 

MHEN  once  thou  hast  conceived  and 
determined   thy  mission  within  thy 
soul,   let   naught  arrest  thy  steps. 

Mazzinl 


35^  Beccmber  23, 

/]  NjD  we    desire  that  each  one  of  you  may 
show  the  sa?ne  diligence  imto  the  fullness 
of  hope  even  to  the  end. — (Revised  Aversion) 
Hebrews  vi.  lo. 

Evil  is  wrought 

By  want  of  thought, 

As  well  as  by  want  of  heart. 

Thomas  Hood. 

'^I^OU  remember  that  parable  of  the  prod- 
^^  igal  son,  when  the  man  came  to  him- 
self and  returned  to  his  father.  While  he 
stood  afar  off,  hesitating  to  go  on,  the  father 
came  out  to  meet  him,  and  threw  himself 
on  his  son's  neck,  and  kissed  him,  and  said, 
'•''  Bring  the  best  robe,  and  the  ring,  and  the 
shoes,  and  kill  the  fatted  calf."  This  is 
Christianity;  it  is  God  coming  out  to  man 
when  man  turns  his  face  to  God.  I  wish 
I  could  put  this  simple,  sublime,  eternal, 
divine  faith  of  the  ages  so  before  you  that 
every  one  of  you  would  say,  ''  He  shall  be 
my  God,  revealed  in  Christ,  received  in  the 
spirit,  interpreted  by  the  experience,  lived 
in  the  life — my  hope,  my  salvation." 

Rev.  Lyman  Abbott. 


December  24.  359 

AND  when  he  piittctJi  forth  his  oiv?i  sheep ^ 
he  goeth  before  them,  mid  the  sheep  follow 
him  J  for  they  k7iow  his  voice. 

And  a  stranger  will  they  not  follow,  but  will 
flee  froi7i  him  j  for  they  know  7iot  the  voice  of 
strangers. — John  x.  4,  5. 

We  see  Thy  hand — it  leads  us,  it  supports  us ; 
We   hear   Thy     voice — it   counsels    and   it 

courts  us; 
And    then   we    turn    away;    and    still    Thy 
kindness 

Forgives  our  blindness. 

John  Bowring. 

MITH  calm  longing  our  glance  rests 
upon  the  blessed  Home  which  lies 
before  us,  and  life  appears  to  us  peaceful, 
and  death  sweet.  The  thorns  of  our  pilgrim- 
path  no  longer  wound  us,  and  the  entrance 
to  the  Father's  house  is  no  more  narrow 
and  fearful.  The  waste  blooms  into  a 
garden  of  the  Lord,  and  the  dark  valley 
becomes  a  light,  lovely  path.  With  refresh- 
ing peace  within,  praising  God  with  heart 
and  mouth,  we  walk  joyfully  toward  the 
beloved  Home.  Max  Muller. 


36o  December  25. 

r^LOR  Y  to  God  in  the  highest^  and  on  earth 
peace,  good  will  toward  men. — Luke  ii.  14. 


Hark!  the  praising  angels  say, 
Christ  was  born  on  Christmas  Day 
On  blest  Judea  far  away. 

Hush !  our  pleading  spirits  say, 
Christ  be  born  in  us,  we  pray, 
And  give  our  souls  their  Christmas  Day. 
From  the  German. 


HDAY  to  lift  up  the  soul  to  God  and 
bring  man  nearer  to  his  brother.  .  . 
Sing  the  angels'  song  to  all  human  hearts  of 
**  Glory  to  God  in  the  highest,  and  on  earth 
peace,  good  will  toward  men." 

J.  F.  Clarke. 

►J- 

God,  who  at  sundry  times  and  in  divers 
manners  spake  in  time  past  unto  the  fathers 
by  the  prophets;  hath  in  these  last  days 
spoken  unto  us  by  his  Son,  whom  he  hath 
appointed  heir  of  all  things;  by  whom  also 
he  made  the  worlds. — Hebrews  i.  i,  2. 


2)ecembec  26.  361 

1/1/11  A  TSO EVE J^  t/iifigs  are  trt/e,  ivhatso- 
ever  tilings  are  holiest,  whatsoever  things 
are  just^  whatsoever  things  are  pure,  whatso- 
ever things  are  lovely,  whatsoever  things  are  of 
good  report ;  if  there  be  any  virtue,  a7id  if 
there  be  any  praise,  think  on  these  thifigs. — 
Philippians  iv,  8. 

•i- 

Where'er  the  gentle  heart 
Finds  courage  from  above; 
Where'er  the  heart  forsook 
Warms  with  the  breath  of  love; 
Where  faith  bids  fear  depart, 
City  of  God  !  thou  art. 

Francis  T.  Palgrave. 


^^  SPIRIT  pure,  simple,  and  constant, 
^V  is  not  like  Martha,  ''distracted  and 
troubled  with  the  multitude  of  its  employ- 
ments," however  great  ;  because,  being 
inwardly  at  rest,  it  seeketh  not  its  own 
glory  in  what  it  does,  but  "  doth  all  to  the 
glory  of  God  ";  for  there  is  no  other  cause 
of  perplexity  and  disquiet,  but  an  unsub- 
dued will   and   unmortified  affections. 

Thomas  a  Kempis. 


3^2  Becember  27, 

"T^HEN  shall  we  kitow,  if  we  folloiv  on  to 
know  the  Lord. — Hose  A  vi.  3. 

Sweet   are    the    thoughts    that    savor    of 
content ; 
The  quiet  mind  is  richer  than  a  crown  ; 
Sweet  are   the    nights  in  careless   slumber 
spent; 
The    poor  estate  scorns    fortune's  angry 
frown; 
Such  sweet  content,  such  minds,  such  sleep, 
such  bliss. 
Beggars  enjoy,  when  princes  oft  do  miss. 
Robert  Greene. 

fROM  the  height  of  that  future  to 
which  on  the  wings  of  the  ancient 
prophetic  belief  we  can  transport  ourselves, 
look  back  on  the  present.  .  .  Think  of 
those  good  thoughts  and  deeds  which  alone 
will  survive  in  that  unknown  world.  .  .  To 
that  future  of  futures  which  shall  fulfill  the 
yearnings  of  all  that  the  prophets  have 
desired  on  earth,  it  is  for  us,  wherever  we 
are,  to  look  onward,  upward,  and  forward  in 
the  constant  expectation  of  something  better 
than  we  see  or  know.         Dean  Stanley. 


December  28.  3^3 

J  ET  us  therefore  come  boldly  unto  the  throne 
of  grace ^    that  we    may   obtain    7nercy. — 
Hebrews  iv.  i6. 


Who  in  Life's  battle  firm  doth  stand 
Shall  bear  Hope's  tender  blossoms 
Into  the  Silent  Land  ! 

J.  G.  Von  Salis. 


'^^AKE  the  grandest  of  human  callings 
WL'  and  detail  its  routine;  people  will  turn 
away  from  it  as  from  a  dull  story.  And 
yet  one  may  take  the  smallest  calling,  the 
meanest  occupation,  the  most  matter-of- 
course  duty  and  shed  on  it  the  beautiful 
light  of  the  ideal  world,  the  glory  of 
religion;  and  behold,  as  every  dewdrop 
becomes  a  diamond  when  the  morning 
comes  over  the  hills,  as  every  bit  of  mica 
flashes  like  a  pearl  when  the  sunshine 
strikes  it,  so  this  little  atom  of  duty,  care, 
toil,  trouble,  becomes  a  gem  when  touched 
by  the  light  of  its  principle. 

O.  B.  Frothingham. 


3^4  December  29, 

r^ASTING  all  your  cai'e  upon  him  :  for  he 
careth  for  you. — i  Peter  v.  7. 


MOULD  you  know  the  peace  of  God, 
realize  that  you  are  a  part  of  that 
infinite  majesty;  strive  to  catch  now  and 
then  a  note  of  the  heavenly  melody;  chant 
a  stray  chord  of  the  infinite  harmony; 
remember  that  everything  beautiful  springs 
from  a  beauty  that  is  behind  it,  every  strong 
will  rises  from  a  strength  underneath,  and 
all  your  loves  are  fed  from  the  fountain  of 
infinite  love.  And  for  yourself  you  may 
mar  the  beautiful  or  reflect  it,  you  can 
either  enter  into  the  strength  or  become  its 
victim,  know  the  love  or  thwart  it. 

J.  L.  L.  Jones. 

►^ 

Full  souls  are  double  mirrors,  making  still 
An  endless  vista  of  fair  things  before. 
Repeating  things  behind. 

George  Eliot. 

Greater  love  hath  no  man  than  this,  that 
a  man  lay  down  his  life  for  his  friends. — 
John  xv.  13. 


December  30»  3^5 

"DE  kindly  affcctioned  one   to   another   with 
brotherly  love  ;    i?t  honour  preferring  07ie 
another. — Romans  xii.  lo. 


MHEN  we  go  out  into  the  fields  in  the 
evening  of  the  year,  we  regard,  even 
in  spite  of  ourselves,  the  still  but  steady 
advances  of  time.  .  .  Yet  a  few  years, 
we  think,  and  all  that  now  bless,  or  all  that 
now  convulse  humanity,  will  also  have 
perished.  The  mightiest  pageantry  of  life 
will  pass:  the  loudest  notes  of  triumph  or 
of  conquest  will  be  silent  in  the  grave; 
**the  wicked,"  wherever  active,  will  *' cease 
from  troubling,"  and  *'the  weary,"  wher- 
ever suffering,  will  *'be  at  rest."  Under 
an  impression  so  profound  we  feel  our  own 
hearts  better.  The  cares,  the  animosities, 
the  hatreds  which  society  may  have  engen- 
dered, sink  unperceived  from  our  bosoms. 
Archibald  Alison, 


Heroic  souls  in  old  times  had  no  more 
opportunities  than  we  have;  but  they  used 
them. 

Charles  Kingsley. 


3^6  December  31. 

A  ND  let  us  not  be  weary  in  well  doing  :  for 
in  due  season  we  shall  reap,  if  we  faint 
not.     As  we  have  therefore  opportunity,  let  us 
do  good  unto  all  men. — Galatians  vi.  9,  10. 


Why  press  we  so  against  the  door  that  Fate 

Has  barred  upon  our  hearts'  desire  ? 
Why  hold  our  lives  bereft  and  desolate 

Because  God  writes  their  almanac  in  fire? 
Why  should  we   sadden  with  dark  clouded 
skies, 
When  others  make  a  ladder  of  their  love, 
And  while  we  deem  ourselves  too  weak  to 
rise, 
They've  climbed  above  ? 

Caroline  North. 


Not  throned  above  the  skies. 
Nor  golden-walled  afar, 
But  where  Christ's  two  or  three 
In  His  name  gathered  are, 
Be  in  the  midst  of  them, 
God's  own  Jerusalem! 

Francis  T.   Palgrave. 


INDEX-AUTHORS. 


Abbey,  Henry,  338 

Abbott,  Lyman,  345,  354,  358 

Adams,  S.  F.,  20,  157,  160,  168,  270 

Addison,  Joseph,  31,  62,  167 

Akenside,  Mark,  60,  I2I 

Alison,  A,,  26 

Alison,  R.,  225,  365 

Alvord,  Dean,  220,  222 

Ames,  C.  G.,  36,  129,   134,    141,  144,    146,    154,    177, 

196,  273,  302,  306,  323,  338,  348,  355,  356 
Amiel,  90,  272,  273 
Angelique,  La  Mere,  281 
Angelo,  M.,  51,  267,  302 
Angelus,  S.,  256 
Anonymous,  16,  24,  97,  99,  105,  107,  119,  146, 153,  190, 

265,  276,  311,  325,  331,  337,  342,  347 
Anselm,  St.,  281 

Arnold,  Edwin,  82,  131,  205,  282,  348,  356 
Arnold,  G.,  322 

Arnold,  Matthew,  53,  128,  179,  246,  349 
Ashe,  T.,  295 
Asiatic  Prov,,  252 

367 


368  IFnDej. 

Askew,  A.,  132 

Atherton,  C.  I.,  116 

Auerbach,  253 

Augustine,  St.,  113,  180,  199,  293 

Austen,  J.,  306 

Bailey,  P.  J.,  200,  203 

Baillie,  Joanna,  128 

Barrie,  J.  M.,  32,  40,  185 

Barrow,  I.,  246,  248 

Barton.  A.,  315,  327 

Basil,  124 

Baxter,  R.,  186,  277 

Beaconsfield,  Lord,  30 

Beatty,  P.,  166 

Beecher,  H.  W.,  81,  148,  275 

Bernard,  St.,  338 

Bicknell,  W.  M.,  265 

Bismarck,  Prince,  3 

Blanchard   F.,  221 

Blanchard,  L.,  221 

Bliss,  P.  P.,  47 

Bonar,  H.,  69,  74,  202,  268,  278,  279,  294,  308 

Bossuet,  317 

Botta,  Mrs.  A.  L.,  99 

Bovel,  136,  266 

Bowles,  W.  L.,  335 

Bowring,  J.,  274,  359 

Brainerd,  M.  G.,  149 

Breton,  N.,  355 

Bright,  Dr.,  257 

Bronte,  C,  86,  103,  331 


IfnDej,  369 

Bronte,  E.,  305 

Brooke,  S.,  59,  92 

Brooks,  E.  S.,  189,  192 

Browning,  Mrs.,  77,  219,  28S,  343 

Browning,  Robert,  38,  46,  50,  52,   103,   119,   145,  233, 

265,  266,  284,  325,  336 
Brown,  John,  14 
Brown,  T,,  234 
Bryant,  W.  C,  39 
Buchanan,  R.,  320 
Buckham,  J.,  86 
Bunyan,  John,  27 
Burbridge,  T.,  209 
Burke,  E.,  289 
Burns,  Robert,  72,  76 
Burrington,  E.  H.,  194,  206 

Canterbury,  Dean  of,  199 

Capen,  C.  H.,  95,  179,  214,  254 

Carlyle,  Thomas,  23,  55,  178,  226,  309,  320,   322,  323, 

357 
Carney,  J.  A,  F.,  107 
Carter,  T.  T.,  158,  252 
Chalmers,  T.,  92,  308 
Channing,  W.  E.,   156,  233,  307 
Chapman,  G.,  231 

Charles,  Mrs.  E.  R.,  42,  130,  260,  313 
Chatterton,  T.,  290 
Child,  L.  M.,  353 
Cicero,  216,  254 
Clarke,  J.  F.,  249,  360 
Clough,  A.  H.,  319 


370  UnOej* 

Coleridge,  H.,  198,  269 

Coleridge,  S.  T.,  29 

Collins,  H.,  61 

Comstock,  E.  M.,  195 

Coinfucius,  167 

Cook,  E.,  204,  211,  213,  218,  228 

Cowley,  A.,  266 

Cowper,  Wm.,  71,  174,  242,  298 

Cox,  C.  C,  2o3 

Craik,  D.  U.,  107,  215,  321 


Cranch,  C. 

.,98 

Crosswell, 

w., 

.  154 

Cudworth, 

W., 

,63 

Currier,  S. 

J-, 

III 

Cuyler,  T. 

L., 

103, 

112, 

131, 

294, 

31 

Cyrus,  26 

Davies,  Sir  J.,  217 

Davy,  Sir  Humphrey,  63,  82 

Deems,  C.  F.,  184,  233 

Denmark,  328 

De  Sales,  St.  F.,  71 

De  Stael,  Mme.,  102,  345 

Dickens,  C,  218,  219,  226,  232,  296,  299,  333 

Doddridge,  P.,  137 

Donald,  E.  W,,  184,  277,  329,  339 

Doudney,  S.,  173 

Drummond,  H.,  50,  74,  158 

Eastman,  A.  F.,  125 
Ecob,  J.  H.,  102 
Edersheim,  13 


Eliot,  C,  191 

Eliot,   George,   20,  62,    76,    122,    143,    179,    207,   248, 

259,  291,  292,  295,  298,  299,  300,  339,  364 
Eliot,  S.,  342 

Emerson,  R.  W.,  35,  38,  64,  69,  113,  245 
Enchiridion,  lO 
Epictetus,  205,  283 
Euthanasy,  312 
Ewing,  Mrs.  J.,  in,  139,  170 
Exeter,  Bishop  of,  212 

Faber,  F.  \V.,  39,  41,  75,  93,  loi,  104,  117,  133,  138, 
152,  154,  165,  177,  188,  214,  221,  225,  231,  235,  236, 
238,  264,  280,  317 

Farquhar,  G.,  25 

Farrar,  Canon,  17,  70,  144,  183,  214,  236,  282 

Fawcett,  Edgar,  43 

Feltham,  O.,  247,  255,  350 

Fenelon,  4,  33,  126,  151,  279,  281 

Fernald,  J.  C.,  322 

Flavel,  no 

Fontaine,  B.,  148 

Fowler,  Bishop,  232,  262 

Freemantle,  Canon,  159 

Frothingham,  N.  L.,  353 

Frothingham,  O.  B.,  363 

Froude,  J.  A.,  13,  38,  235 

Fuller,  Margaret,  37,  65 

Fuller,  T.,  326 

Gambold,  271 
Gannet,  W.  C,  204 


372     '  -ffnOej. 

Garrett,  E.,  i6o,  349 

Geikie,  C,  87,  137,  247 

Germanica.  Lyra,  212,  229 

Gibbon,  Thomas,  15 

Gill,  F.  T.,  Ill 

Gladstone,    Wm.   Ewart,    14,    17,   71,  77,  79,  157,  168, 

197,  242,  267,  276,  340,  341,  346 
Goethe,  ir,  34,  70,  no,  119,  124,   146,   161,   163,  165, 

167,   191,  195 
Gold  Dust,  16,  132 
Gorden,  Rev.  G.,  331 
Grant,  Sir  Robert,  48,  58,  91,  129 
Green,  R.,  236 

Hageman,  S.  M.,  126 

Hale,  Sir  M.,  253 

Hales,  J.,  284 

Hall,  Fr.,  33,  98,  in,  174,  207 

Hamerton,  P.  G.,  213 

Hamilton,  W.  R.,  171 

Hare,  J.  C,  48,  56 

Harpur,  E.,  269 

Harvey,  C,  127 

Hassey,  C,  127 

Havergal,  F.  R.,  5,  13,    19,   3c,    33,   40,   45,  272,  303, 

341 
Hayne,  P.  H.,  21 
Heber,  R.,  85,  337 
Helker,  S.  S.,  194 
Helps,  S.,  204 
Helps,  Sir  A.,  49 
Hemans,  Mrs.  F.,  ii,  224,  244 


fTn^cJ.  373 

Henry,  M.,  174,  250,  31 1 

Herbert,  G.,  300 

Herodotus,  178 

Herrick,  R.,  15,  210 

Hickman,   H.,  140 

Hillel,  Rabbi,  210 

Hindu,  66 

Holland,  S.,  140 

Hood,  T.,  358 

Home,  G.,  243,  272 

Houghton,  Lord,  163,  324 

Hudson,  Mrs.  M.  C.,  105,  155 

Hughes,  Thomas,  25,  55,  172,  322,  337 

Hugo,  Victor,  2,  108,  181,  254 

Ingelow,  Jean,  65,69,  83,  136,  158,  159,  169,  182,  270, 
289,  309 

James,  H.,  188 

Johnson,  Samuel,  9,  133,  217 

Jones,  J.  L.  L.,  364 

Jones,  S.  C.,  18 

Jones,  Sir  Wm.,  144 

Keats,  J.,  176 

Keble,  John,  8,  10,  22,  63,  73,  80,  88,  214 

Keith,  G.,  i8i 

Kemble,  F.  A.,  66,  87 

Kempis,  Thomas  a,  2,  5,  9,  16,  65,  83,  94,   127,  134, 

256,  315,  361 
Kennedy,  W.,  182 
Ken,  Thomas,  9,  12 


374  fnOej» 

Key,  F.  S.,  6 

Kingsley,  Charles,  5,  17,  19,  30,  78,  79,  130,  321,  332, 

365 
Kinney,  C,  118 
Klingle,  G.,  304 
Knox,  Mrs.  Craig,  162 
Krummacher,  281 

La  Bruyere,  106 
Landon,  L.  E.,  90 
Langford,  G.  W.,  130 
Lavater,  253 
Leigh  ton,  Bishop,  210 
Liddon,  Canon,  20 
Liszt,  Mrs.,  164,  262 
Linton,  W.  J.,  100 
Livingston,  P.,  95 
Locke,  J.,  256,  287 
Luther,  M.,   139 
Lyall,  E.,  176 

Lyiy,  175 

Lyte,  H.  F.,  51 

MacDonald,  Geo.,  9,  12,  35,  36,  40,  43,   63,  89,   113, 

131,  144,  179,  186,  223,  255,  330 
Mackay,  C,  67,  192,  357 
Mann,  Horace,  172,  244,  323 
Manning,  H.,  75 
Mant,  Bishop,  236,  241 
Mason,  B.  G.,  132 
Massey,  G.,  53 
Martineau,  H.,  306 


irnDej»  375 

Martineau,  James,  34,  41,  72,  98,  115,  324 

Martin,  L.  Ainie,  15 

Martyn,  E.  L.,  94,  166,  180, 

Maurice,  F.  D.,  162,  334 

Maxim,  Chinese,  171,  222 

Mazzini,  357 

Meredith,  Owen,  13,  216 

Metastasio,  100 

Miller,  Rev,  J.  R.,  i,  7,  42,  84,  106,  258,  304 

Milman,  Dean,  140 

Milman,  H.  H.,  291 

Milnes,  R.  M.,  115 

Milton,  J.,  61 

Montgomery,  James,  89,  350,  351,  354 

Montreux,  E.  B.,  3 

More,  Hannah,  64,  73,  loi,  253,  273 

Morris,  J.,  173 

Morris,  L.,  105 

Morris,  Wm.,  66 

Mountford,  W.,  159 

Mozoomdar,  P.  C,  301,  343 

Muller,  Max,  349,  359 

Mulock,  Mrs.,  161,  165,  318 

Murray,  J.  J,,  190 

Newhall,  W.  R.,  41,  232 

Newman,    J.    H.,    59,    145,    155,     260,     280,     326, 

353 
Newton,  John,  346 
Nicoll,  R.,  201 
North,  C.  E.  S.,  332,  366 
Novalis,  170 


376  ITnDei. 

Osborne,  Fr.,  76,  337 
Ovid,  124 

Palgrave,  F.  T.,  161,  361,  366 

Parker,  T.,  67,  80,  186,  195 

Parks,  Rev.  L.,  201,  211 

Parsons,  T.  W.,  317 

Partridge,  S.  W.,  142 

Pascal,  B.,  245 

Paul,  Jean,  297 

Peabody,  A.  P.,  1 20 

Peabody,  O.  W.  P.,  127,  152 

Percival,  J.  G.,  223 

Pericles,  188 

Petrarch,  86,  286 

Phelps,  A.,  89 

Philemon,  184 

Pierpont,  ].,  243,  285,  299 

Pierson,  A.  T,,  65 

Pliny,  62 

Pope,  Alexander,  64,  130,  153,  164,  170 

Praed,  W.  M.,  117 

Prior,  M.,  258 

Procter,  A.  A.,  23,  24,  104,  120,  143,  296,  31 1,  333 

Procter,  B.  W.,  102 

Pulsford,  164 

Punshon,  W.  M.,  28,  261 

Pusey,  E.  B.,  44,  91,  139,  205 

Pythagoras,  340 

Quarles,  F.,  138,  187,301 
Quincy,  Josiah,  :6i 


irnDei,  377 

Realf.  R.,  227 

Richter,  J.  P.,  205,  261,  310 

Robertson,  F.  W.,  22,  37,  45,  54,  58,  80,  85,  268,  278, 

321,  344 
Robinson,  Edith,  136,  143,  147,  167,  211 
Rogers,  S.,  323 
Rossetti,  C,  118,  334,  337 
Rossetti,  D.  G.,  4 
Ruskin,  John,  43,  52,  62,  66,  77,  106,  109,  112,  119,  122, 

147,  159,  175,  188,  193,  206,  209,  269,  310 
Rutherford,  307 
Ryder,  A.  H.,  215,  220,  231 

Saadi,  113 

Sangster,  M.  E.,  146 

Sargent,  E.,  175,  251 

Savage,  M.  J.,  189,  193,  270,  316,  344,  347 

Savonarola,  227 

Saxe,  J.  G.,  287 

Schiller,  2,  11,  14,  114,  124,  151,  293,  346 

Schliermacher,  151 

Schonberg-Cotta    Family,    13,    44,    45,    53,    54,     57, 

86,  95 
Scott,  Sir  Walter,  41,  59,  74,  96 
Seagrave,  R.,  185 
Seelye,  L.  C.,  144 
Seneca,  173,  177,  187,  219 
Sewell,  195 

Shakspeare,  21,  24,  93,  123,  165,  226,  283,  286,  297 
Shaw,  G.  B.,  210 
Shelley,  P.  B.,3,  68 
Sheridan,  R.  B.,  292 


378  IFnOej. 

Shipton,  A.,  247,  248,  258,  266,  275,  301 

Shurtleff,  E.,  169 

Sidney,  Sir  Philip,  76,  85,  126,  218,  226,  249,  314 

Sigourney,  Mrs.,  78 

Smiles,  Samuel,  6,  19,  23,  28,  32,47,  87,  106,  129,  134, 

138,  151,  174,  178,  183,  261 
Smith,  Sydney,  25,  29,  139 
South,  R.,  251 
Southwell,  R.,  97 
Spitta,  237 
Spurgeon,  C.  H.,  92,  98,  100,  185,  202,  220,  228,  268, 

271,  290,  291,  307,  316,  318 
Stalker,  J.,  198 
Stanley,  Dean,  8,  21,  29,  35,  45,  46,  49,  Si,  84,  85,  88, 

109,    114,   116,    135,    196,  203,  206,  222,  230,  320, 

362 
Sterling,  J.,  263 
Sterne,  158 
Stevens,  A.,  249 
Stillingfleet,  E.,  241 
Stowe,  H.  B.,  50 
Super,  E.  L.,  207 
Swetchine,  Mme.,  132 
Swift,  J.,  330 
Swinburne,  259 
Symonds,  J.  A.,  108 

Tauler,  J.,  237,  240 
Taylor,  Bishop,  183 
Taylor,  Jeremy,  40,  199 

Tennyson,  Alfred,   7,   57,  70,  216,  232,  235,  283,  297, 
313,  342 


1Fn5er.  379 

Thackeray,  104,  107,  187,  300 

Tholuck,  326 

Thomas,  Mrs.  H.  F.,  178 

Thomson,  Bishop,  70 

Thoreau,  186 

Tillotson,  J..  239,  242,  250 

Toplady,  A.  M.,  32,  82 

Townshend,  C.  H.,  150,  281 

Trapp,  215 

Trench,  R.  C,  92,  ii§,  233 

Tuckerman,  H.  T.,  150,  277 

Tusser,  Thomas,  72 

Unity,  75 

Van  Dyke,  H.  J.,  96 
Van  Ness,  Rev.  T.,  340 
Very,  Jones,  64,  135 
Von  Salis,  J.  G.,  363 

Walker,  J.,  156 

Ward,  Mrs.  H.,  276 

Ware,  J.  F.  W.,  73,  no,  175,  249,  284 

Waring,  A.,  280 

Warren,  Bishop,  184,  191 

Watts,  Isaac,  37,  156,  172,  197,  230 

Wesley,  Charles,  44,  46,  68 

Whiting,  L.,  118,  123,  163,  208,  224,  229,  275 

Willard,  F.  E.,  288 

Williams,  I.,  257,  263 

Winslow,  O.,  315 

Wisdom,  Brahmin's,  56 


38o  fnOes* 

Wither,  Geo.,  i8 

Wordsworth,  Wm.,  27,  36,  50,  84,  112,  307 

Xavier,  F.,  147 

Young,  E.,  61 

Zsckokke,  288 


01005 


1771 


